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

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Sympathectomy on cerebral and peripheral muscular arteries

Differing influence of sympathectomy on smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts in cerebral and peripheral muscular arteries.
Source:
Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic & Clinical; Jan2006, Vol. 124 Issue 1/2, p38-48, 11p
In contrast to intact FAs, the external layers of sympathectomized FAs revealed migration of fibroblasts from the adventitia and death of SMCs. These results strongly suggest that sympathetic nerves intervene in the cytoskeletal protein remodelling through phenotypic modulation of both SMCs and MFBs during post-natal development, and in pathologies involving similar phenomena, such as atherosclerosis. [Copyright 2006 Elsevier] ( femoral (FA) and basilar (BA) arteries.)