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.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Monday, June 16, 2008

arrhythmias are precipitated by emotional stimuli

JAMES W. JEFFERSON
Psychocardiology: Meeting place of heart and mind
Psychosomatics, Nov 1985; 26: 841 - 842.
*......life-threatening, often fatal, arrhythmias are precipitated by emotional stimuli, and effective treatments such as high thoracic left sympathectomy are directed at the nervous sys-tem rather than the heart.