The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
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After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
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Hemodynamic responses were abolished after bilateral sympathectomy

Hemodynamic responses were diminished after bilateral vagotomy and abolished after bilateral
sympathectomy.
Conclusion Since activation of cardiac afferent nerves and reflex responses remained intact after
TMLR, but changed after vagotomy or sympathectomy, TMLR does not denervate the heart sufficiently
to be the cause of improved angina after TMLR (Transmyocardial laser revascularization)


Chemoreflexes
An Experimental Study
Benjamin B. Y. Chiang, MD; Andrew M. Roberts, PhD; Abul M. Kashem, MD, PhD;
William P. Santamore, PhD; Sufan Chien, MD; Laman Gray, Jr, MD;
Robert Dowling, MD

Vol. 135 No. 5, May 2000 Archives
Arch Surg.