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

Friday, July 25, 2008

From the ETS Discussion Forum

ETS surgeons should be measuring heart function, bronco-motor tone, thermoregulation, blood vessel constriction, and thyroid. They should be doing bone scans and exercise tests. They should measure changes in catecholomine levels. At least they should measure sweating. All of this is affected by ETS, and they simply dont want to know. Sorry, but the vast majority of ETS papers are not science. Dr. Goldstein at NIH is doing some good work, and showing some very disturbing results. All in all, ETS is still highly experimental, under-studied, and patients should be warned accordingly.

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