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

Monday, December 21, 2009

Activation of immune cells in the central nervous system leads to the release of proinflammatory factors

There is also growing evidence that inflammation in the brain (neuroinflammation) might play the primary role in the pathogenesis of a number of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkisons disease (PD) (Minghetti 2005). Activation of immune cells in the central nervous system leads to the release of proinflammatory factors such as IL-1, IL-2, IL-6 and TNF-a which in turn have cytotoxic effects (neurotoxicity). It has also been speculated that neuroinflammation with disturbed glutamate metabolism is the cause of the fatigue that characterizes diseases like CS (Rönnback 2004).
Study protocol 070927: Version 1.4
Oskar Ragnarsson
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