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

Saturday, May 17, 2008

study demonstrates that cerebral autoregulation is influenced by the autonomic innervation of cerebral vessels

Alpha adrenergic blockade improves impaired autoregulation when cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is lowered but worsens it when CPP is raised, indicating that PBZ impairs the ability of cerebral vessels to constrict during induced hypertension and improves their ability to dilate during induced hypotension.

JOHN STIRLING MEYER M.D.1; KUNIO SHIMAZU M.D.1; SHIGEMICHI OKAMOTO M.D.1; ATSUO KOTO M.D.1; TADAO OHUCHI M.D.1; ATSUO SARI M.D.1; ARTHUR DALE ERICSSON M.D.1

1 Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Baylor-Methodist Center for Cerebrovascular Research, Houston, Texas 77025
© 1973 American Heart Association, Inc.