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.
"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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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.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11193740
Kopelman D, Assalia A, Ehrenreich M, Ben-Amnon Y, Bahous H, Hashmonai M.
An ultrastructural study of the effects of right cervical sympathectomy on the sinuatrial and atrioventricular nodes in the heart
Axon profiles and terminals showing various degrees of degeneration were present in the vicinity of the nodal cells throughout the period of study. It is concluded that right cervical sympathectomy resulted in a rapid degeneration in some of the cells in the sinuatrial and atrioventricular nodes.
S S Tay, W C Wong, and E A Ling
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1165060
S S Tay, W C Wong, and E A Ling
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1165060