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

Monday, February 9, 2009

Intraneural activated T cells cause focal breakdown of the blood-nerve barrier

These findings demonstrate that activated T cells cause focal breakdown of the BNB, allowing circulating antimyelin antibody to enter the endoneurium with consequent focal demyelination.
Brain. 1995 Aug;118 ( Pt 4):857-68
Intraneural activated T cells cause focal breakdown of the blood-nerve barrier.

Spies JM, Westland KW, Bonner JG, Pollard JD.
Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Sydney, NSW Australia.