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, November 30, 2008

Unsubstantiated statements by ETS surgeon can be misleading 

"The incidence of compensatory hyperhidrosis is
proportional to
the surface
area rendered anhidrotic."


"The statement is based on my own observations.  It is
original and does not refer to any other article.
You have already discovered the
original source.

It is a clinical observation.  I have done no
measurements that is/yet to be subjected to
scientific study.
You can quote it as a clinical
hypothesis that I have postulated."

Jack Collin,
consultant surgeon
Oxford

Mia: the only study done (and posted on this blog)
so far, states that 
Sympathectomy will INCREASE the total
amount of body sweat.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11193740