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

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increase in plasma norepinephrine (NE), is a salient feature in congestive heart failure

http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/42/3/549

http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/42/3/549

Activation of the sympathetic nervous system, manifested by an increase in plasma norepinephrine (NE), is a salient feature in congestive heart failure.


J Am Coll Cardiol, 2003; 42:549-551, doi:10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00643-0
© 2003 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation

Chang-seng Liang, MD, PhD, FACC*,*

* Department of Medicine (Cardiology Unit), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA