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, February 16, 2009

Arterial oxygen desaturation during only one of two similar thoracoscopic procedures on the same patient

PFITZNER J. (1) ; FOWLIE J. A. (1) ; KISHORE M. (1) ; MICHAEL A. S. (1) ; LANCE D. G. (1) ;


(1) Department of Anaesthesia and Thoracic Surgery Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, AUSTRALIE
Because acute hypoxia had developed during one-lung ventilation on the first occasion, serial blood gases were taken during the second. Also, whereas on the first occasion the non-ventilated lung had been left open to air when one-lung ventilation was initiated, on the second it was connected to an ambient pressure oxygen source with the object of theoretically enabling apnoeic oxygenation during lung collapse. It is argued that this fundamental difference in anaesthetic practice may have contributed to the improved oxygenation that was recorded during the second thoracoscopy.

Anaesthesia and intensive care ISSN 0310-057X CODEN AINCBS
2005, vol. 33, no6, pp. 805-807 [3 page(s) (article)] (16 ref.)