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

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Patients usually develop Horner's syndrome and Guttman's sign, stuffy nose

Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD, Yili Zhou, MD, PhD, NileshPatel, MD, Bhupinder Saini, MD, and John Nelson, MD
A New and Easy Technique to Block the Stellate Ganglion

Patients usually develop Horner's syndrome and Guttman's sign, stuffy nose and increased temperature on the ipsilateral side of the block (face and upper extremity) within 5 minutes after the procedure.

Pain Physician Vol. 7, No. 3, 2004