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 11, 2008

sympathectomy - protection against noise-induced hearing loss

Strategies to enhance CBF for protection against noise

A number of the experimental and clinical approaches to protection against noise-induced hearing loss involve mechanisms related to CBF and the oxygenation of the cochlea. These are such diverse procedures as sympathectomy, hyperbaric oxygen treatment and carbogen respiration. It is not within the scope of this review to address the literature concerning these and other approaches comprehensively, but is useful to consider a few examples and their relative success. Strategies in relation to ROS are covered in the next section.
Year : 1999 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 5 | Page : 17-31

Sound-induced cochlear ischemia/hypoxia as a mechanism of hearing loss

Nuttall Alfred L
Department of Otolaryngology, NRC04, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA and Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 97201-3098, USA,