sympathectomy improves skin blood flow at the thermoregulatory but not the nutritive level of skin microcirculation. This may be related to the fact that the thermoregulatory vessels are mainly sympathetically controlled, whereas the nutritive capillaries are mainly controlled by local (nonneural) factors.
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Depending on the series and the duration of follow-up, the success rate of sympathectomy varies from 12% to 97%
http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-pain-symptom-control-and-palliative-care/volume-2-number-1/complex-regional-pain-syndrome-a-clinical-review.html
typical CRPS changes also occur following sympathectomy, which has traditionally been considered curative of CRPS
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Sympathectomy has been discredited in this condition
Vasospastic conditions
Raynaud’s syndrome
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