Mendlowitz. Schauer, and Gross4 pointed out that the heart rate became slower after removal of the sympathetic chain, but this bradycardia was only temporary. Bilateral sympathectomy produced fatal heart block in a few of their experiments.
American Heart Journal
Volume 22, Issue 4, October 1941, Pages 545-548
"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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bradycardia and other cardiac complications common side effects?
The most common side effects of sympathectomy are compensatory sweating, gustatory sweating and cardiac changes including decreasing heart rate, systolic-diastolic and mean arterial pressure. The mechanism of bradycardia and other cardiac complications that develop after thoracic sympathectomy are still unclear. (2009)
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