The concept of posterior nerve root section was resurrected 10 years later, when Danielopolu (Director of the Second Medical Clinic at the University of Bucharest) criticized the Jonnesco-type sympathectomy on the grounds that it produced an irreversible deterioration in cardiac function. He therefore directed his surgical colleague, Hristide, to cut the posterior roots of the upper thoracic spinal nerves which divided only sensory fibres.
Danielopolou later declared cervicothoracic sympathectomy to be disastrous, from the therapeutic point of view, and concluded that removal of the stellate ganglion for angina was incompatible with life.
Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery
By Stephen Westaby, Cecil Bosher
Published by Informa Health Care, 1997
