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.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

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.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Prejunctional Supersensitivity to Norepinephrine after Sympathectomy

Sympathetic Innervatlon of Cerebral Arteries: Prejunctional Super-
sensitivity to Norepinephrine After Sympathectomy or Cocaine
Treatment
L. Edvinsson, P Aubineau, C. Owman, R. Sercombe, and J. Seylaz