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

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Surgical treatment for hyperhidrosis causes hyperhidrosis...


Localised hyperhidrosis may also be due to:
Stroke
Spinal nerve damage
Peripheral nerve damage
Surgical sympathectomy
Neuropathy
Brain tumour
Chronic anxiety disorder
http://www.dermnet.org.nz/hair-nails-sweat/hyperhidrosis.html

Sympathectomy to treat the urge to smoke


Lipov, Eugene (Chicago, IL, US)  treating addiction with disruption of the sympathetic chain.