"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
Friday, July 3, 2009
Auto-regulation after sympathectomy
sympathectomy changes the position of upper and lower limits of auto- regulation but not the basic ability to autoregulate per se (Fitch)
J. D. Pickard, D. P. J. Boisvert, D. I. Graham, and W. Fitch Late effects of subarachnoid haemorrhage on the response of the primate cerebral circulation to drug-induced changes in arterial blood pressure J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, Oct 1979; 42: 899 - 903.