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.

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Cervical sympathectomy affects gonadotropin-releasing hormone, luteinizing hormone and testosterone in male rats


Journal of Anesthesia
Publisher
Springer Japan
ISSN0913-8668 (Print) 1438-8359 (Online)
IssueVolume 9, Number 2 / June, 1995

Hiroshi Iwama1 Contact Information, Choichiro Tase1, Yoshikazu Tonosaki2 and Yasuo Sugiura2

(1) Department of Anesthesiology, Fukushima Medical College, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-12 Fukushima, Japan
(2) Department of Anatomy, Fukushima Medical College, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-12 Fukushima, Japan

Received: 24 August 1994 Accepted: 16 December 1994

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a defect at the adrenoceptor level in patients with sympathectomy

Intradermal injection of 0.5 ug histamine produced equal skin reactions in normal individuals and in diabetic patients with or without evidence of autonomic neuropathy as well as in patients after lumbar sympathectomy. Addition of noradrenaline (0.1 µg) resulted in a significantly smaller skin reaction (mean ± SEM) in normals and in diabetic patients without autonomic neuropathy, but remained unchanged in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy and after lumbar sympathectomy when compared with the reaction to histamine alone. Addition of terbutaline produced similar results as observed with noradrenaline. These findings suggest a defect at the adrenoceptor level in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy and in patients with lumbar sympathectomy. Thus, the combined intradermal injection of histamine and the adrenoceptor agonists noradrenaline or terbutaline represents a simple and useful test for identifying patients with impaired adrenergic function.

A Skin Test for Autonomic Neuropathy
A. Hoffmann, D. Conen, U. Leibundgut, W. Berger

Copyright © 1982 S. Karger AG, BaselMedizinische Universitäts-Poliklinik, Departement für Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital, Basel, Schweiz

Eur Neurol 1982;21:29-33
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The global recurrence rate was 8.8%

The global recurrence rate was 8.8%: 6.6% for palmar hyperhidrosis and 65% for axillary hyperhidrosis. Compensatory sweating was observed in 86.4% of the patients.

Dominique Gossot, MDa*, Domenico Galetta, MDa, Antoine Pascal, MDa, Denis Debrosse, MDa, Raffaele Caliandro, MDa, Philippe Girard, MDa, Jean-Baptiste Stern, MDa, Dominique Grunenwald, MDa

Thoracic Department, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France

Ann Thorac Surg 2003;75:1075-1079

symptoms subsequently deteriorated

We describe a patient who underwent upper thoracic sympathectomy for palmar hyperhidrosis, and whose symptoms subsequently deteriorated, becoming worse than those on initial presentation.


Recurrence of hyperhidrosis after endoscopic transthoracic sympathectomy—case report and review of the literature
C.H. ORTEU 1 , J.M. MCGREGOR 1 , J.R. ALMEYDA 1 M.H.A. RUSTIN 1
1 Dermatology Departments, The Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG and The North Middlesex Hospital, London N18 1QX, UK
Copyright 1995 Blackwell Science Ltd


Accepted for publication 6 January 1995

The results of endoscopic sympathectomy deteriorate progressively from the immediate outcome

Intermediate-term results of endoscopic transaxillary T2 sympathectomy for primary palmar hyperhidrosis
The results of endoscopic sympathectomy deteriorate progressively from the immediate outcome.
Dr T. S.-M. Chiou 1 *, S.-C. Chen 21Department of Neurosurgery, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College Hospital, 23, Section 1, Taichung Kang Road, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
British journal of surgery
ISSN 0007-1323 CODEN BJSUAM

1999, vol. 86, no1, pp. 45-47 (12 ref.)