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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sympathetic denervation with minor arrhythmias

Based on the above findings, we suggest myocardial sympathetic denervation with lowered initial H/M (heart-to-mediastinum count ratios) will develop following surgical sympathectomy at upper cervical ganglia, which will accompanied by compensated uptake-1 system on presynaptic nerve endings of postganglionic neuronal cells, demonstrated by lowered MWO, and preserved homodynamic function and ECG changes except for minor arrhythmias.

Hemodynamic and ECG changes associated with deteriorations in 123I-MIBG adrenergic myocardial imaging following surgical sympathectomy in SD rats

Cheng-Yi Cheng1, Nien-Hsien Liou2, Chieh-Ling Kao2, An-Sui Yang3, Lei-Hang Shen3, Ging-Cheng Perng1 and Wen-Sheng Huang1

1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; ; 2 Institute of Biology and Anatomy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; ; 3 Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taipei, Taiwan

http://jnumedmtg.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/48/MeetingAbstracts_2/226P-b