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.
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sympathetic nerves on early embryonic development and immune modulation of uterus

Role of sympathetic nerves on early embryonic development and immune modulation of uterus in pregnant mice

the CD4+/CD8+ T cells ratio significantly decreased, while the IL-2/IL-4 ratio significantly increased. These findings indicated that the activation of sympathetic nerves might be favorable to fetal survival and development during early pregnancy through influencing on immune function and decidua formation of uterus.

Yulan Donga, Yaoxing Chena, Zixu Wanga, Jumpei Naitob and Ji-long Chenc
aLaboratory of Veterinary Anatomy, College of Animal Medicine, China Agricultural University, Haidian, Beijing 100094, China
bDepartment of Animal Science, School of Sciences and Engineering, Teikyo University of Science and Technology, Yamanashi 409–0193, Japan
cDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Received 24 October 2005; revised 1 August 2006; accepted 2 August 2006. Available online 26 September 2006.