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

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Surgical sympathectomy listed as neurologic disorder (surgically induced)

Other neurologic disorders
- Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinsonism
- Posterior fossa tumor
- Shy-Drager syndrome
- Spinal cord injury with paraplegia
- Surgical sympathectomy
- Syringomyelia
- Syringobulbia
- Tabes dorsales (syphillis)
- Wernicke's encephalopathy
Dizziness: Classification and Pathophysiology
The Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy, Vol. 12, No 4 (2004)