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

Sunday, August 21, 2011

compensatory disease may not be immediate after sympathectomy

Newer techniques include the use of clips instead of complete transsection of the nerve but reversal is not always possible as nerve destruction can be quick and compensatory disease may not be immediate.

The main complications with sympathectomy include compensatory sweating, phantom sweating, gustatory sweating, Horner syndrome, and neuralgia.

Management of Hyperhidrosis

Aamir Haider, Nowell Solish and Nicholas J. Lowe
www.sweatclinicsofcanada.com/Book.pdf