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

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Sympathectomy also cuts sensory nerves

Thoracoscopic Splanchnicectomy, first proposed by Dr. Lin in 1992, is a lower position of sympathetic procedure. It can relieve abdominal cancer pain originating from Pancreas, Liver, Gall Bladder, Upper GI and right Hemi-colon. Nearly hundred percent of effective pain relief is found especially on the case of pancreatic cancer.

http://www.sweathand.com/four_e.htm

Mia: is there a possibility that people who have undergone sympathectomy will not feel when they are having a heart attack, or feel the pain from internal injury, or stomach ulcers?!