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

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

diarrhea associated with disordered motility

III Diarrheal Diseases Lawrence R. Schiller, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2003
Disordered motility or regulation can produce secretory diarrhea. Secretory diarrhea associated with disordered motility can occur in patients who have undergone vagotomy or sympathectomy, patients with autonomic neuropathy from diabetes or amyloidosis, and probably patients with irritable bowel syndrome.