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

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Severe CS for 18% of patients

It was not necessary to remove the clips in any case. In our historical series of 300 patients submit-
ted to sympathicotomy we observed an improvement of the symptoms in 99% and CS in 78%, being severe in 18%.


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EFFECTIVENESS OF SYMPATHETIC BLOCK BY CLIPPING IN THE TREATMENT
OF HYPERHIDROSIS AND UNCONTROLLABLE FACIAL BLUSHING
J.J. Fibla, L. Molins, J.M. Mier, G. Vidal
Thoracic Surgery Sagrat Cor University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
2008;7:147-200
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg
Abstracts: Suppl. 2 to Vol. 7 (June 2008)