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.
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Death following Sympathectomy
Maura Derrane: Tragedy of the man who died of shyness
Sunday Mirror, Dec 4, 2005 by Maura Derrane
THE wife of a solicitor who died two days after undergoing an operation to stop blushing was paid nearly EUR5million in compensation during the week.
Eleanor Synnott sued the surgeon and the hospital where the operation took place. The award was one of the biggest ever paid out in Ireland.
Alan Synnott was one of the country's most successful personal injuries solicitors.
Court papers revealed that there were problems inserting the tubular device into his chest and that as a result of this his lungs were damaged and massive bleeding occurred.
Although emergency surgery was performed Alan Synott never regained consciousness and died two days later.
