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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Cardiac hypertrophy accelerated by left cervical sympathectomy in spontaneously hypertensive rats

T. Matoba1 Contact Information, H. Toshima1, K. Adachi1, K. Ohta1 and T. Ito1

(1) Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, (Japan)
(2) Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahimachi, 830 Kurume, Japan
Cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats was accelerated by denervation of the left cervical sympathetic ganglia. Supersensitivity due to denervation may also exist in cardiac muscles.
This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Education for 1980.
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