Sympathectomy increases total body perspiration, not decreases it

Performing thoracoscopic T2-T3 sympathectomy for PPH affects the total body sweating response to heat.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11193740
Kopelman D, Assalia A, Ehrenreich M, Ben-Amnon Y, Bahous H, Hashmonai M.

Department of Surgery B, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.