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

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Immune responses following sympathectomy

It has been shown in animals that sympathectomy of one side of the
body leads to an increase in the development of tumors on the denervated side [80].
This suggest that interference with the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) can lead to a
compromise of the body's immune system [81–82].

Charles A. Lantz, Ph.D., D.C.
Life Chiropractic College - West
Chiropractic Research Journal 1990; 1 (4): 19-38