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 25, 2008

Role of catecholamines in Depression, Parkinson's and Hypertension

Drugs therapeutically effective in the treatment
of affective disorders and neurological and cardiovascular diseases have also
been shown to influence the uptake, storage, release, formation and metabo-
lism of catecholamines. These findings implicating the peripheral and central
synpathetic nervous system have provided insight into the causes and treat-
ment of mental depression, Parkinson’s disease and hypertension.

Julius Axelrod
NOBEL - LECTURE 1970


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