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
Patients receiving treatment for sweaty hands also receive surgery for Hypertension? Are they told that they are also having heart surgery?
It is worthy to notice that facial sweating is also an indicator of hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Dr. Lin found that sympathetic procedures could concommitantly treat both facial sweating and hypertension. Of course, long-term follow-up is necessary to evaluate its therapeutic and preventive effects to hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
http://www.sweathand.com/one_e.htm
