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.
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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

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Hemodynamic changes after sympathectomy and the number od sympathetic segments operated

After ETS, heart rate, systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressures, rate-pressure product, and NOR decreased,whereas left ventricular end-systolic volume index, cardiac index, and ejection fraction did not change in the 2 groups.Among percent changes in all hemodynamic parameters and NOR occurring after ETS, only the percent decrease in systolic blood pressure in group Th2–4 was larger than that in group Th2–3 (–15 ± 12 % vs.–4±8%, respectively, p <>

Yukio Nakamura1, Shin-ichiro Muramoto1, Rira Kato1, Takahiro Saeki1, Manabu Fujimoto1, Hiroshi Kida1 and Yasushi Matsumoto2 Contact Information

(1) Dept. of Cardiology, Kanazawa National Hospital, 1-1 Shimoishibiki-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920–8650, Japan
(2) Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kanazawa National Hospital, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan