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, June 22, 2008

SYMPATHECTOMY-INDUCED CHANGES IN CYTOKINE PRODUCTION AND IMMUNE EFFECTOR FUNCTION

Lacrimal Gland, Tear Film, and Dry Eye Syndromes

by David D. Sullivan, Darlene A. Dartt, Michele A Meneray - 1998 - Medical - 1051 pages
Published 1998
Springer
Lacrimal apparatus
/ Physiology/ Congresses
SYMPATHECTOMY-INDUCED CHANGES IN CYTOKINE PRODUCTION AND IMMUNE EFFECTOR FUNCTION
page 544:
Our laboratory has shown that following a single intraperitoneal injection of 6-OHDA, splenic NE levels in mice are reduced by approximately 90%.