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

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Long term effect of sympathectomy - deterioration of the mucosa in the gut

sympathectomy in rats decreases the cell proliferation and reduces mucosal mass.
Departments of Surgery and Neurology
Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Anatomy
University of Helsinki, Finland

Nitric oxide and neuropeptides in the gut: Changes in ulcerative colitis, pouchitis
and short bowel syndrome
Pälvi Vento