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

Monday, March 22, 2010

increased blood supply is associated with decreased vascular permeability

The influence of the sympathetic nervous system on capillary permeability was studied in cats. The dye penetration from the blood through the synovial membrane was tested by perfusing the two knee joints, one of which was deprived of its sympathetic nerve supply by unilateral lumbosacral
sympathectomy.
In confirmation of previous experiments, it was found in a great majority of experiments that, in spite of marked vasodilatation, the dye excretion was considerably reduced on the sympathectomised side.
A permeability factor under the influence of the sympathetic nervous system has been postulated; its character and mechanism is still unknown.
Further unpublished experiments seem to support the view that increased blood supply is associated with decreased vascular permeability.
Res Exp Med (Berl) 173, 1--8 (1978)