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

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

CERVICAL SYMPATHECTOMY AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE: THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO BRAIN METABOLISM

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14247422




Factors Affecting Cerebral BloodFlow- Experimental Review: 
Sympathectomy, Hypothermia, CO2 Inhalation andPavarine 



The cerebral spinal fluid pressure increased significantly (86.86to 117.34) immediately after operation but returned to normalwithin 2 weeks.
Ann Surg. 1966 May;163(5):771-7.
PMID: 5930460 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]PMCID: PMC1477179




Effects of increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure on the blood flow and on the energy metabolism of the brain. An experimental study.
PMID: 4316893 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4316893
Acta Physiol Scand Suppl. 1970;339:1-31