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, February 15, 2012

CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT OF ORTHODEOXIA - The Australian Short Course on Intensive Care Medicine, 2005

DEFINE AND LIST THE CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT OF PLATYPNOEA AND
ORTHODEOXIA

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Autonomic
o Parkinson disease (Hussain 2004)
o Bilateral thoracic sympathectomy (van Heerdon 2004)

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