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

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Many injuries to the nervous system are followed by incomplete recovery or even increasing disability over time

Many injuries to the nervous system are followed by incomplete recovery or even increasing disability over time. Some of these long term effects are due to the loss of access to growth factors called neurotrophins that provide essential support for adult nerve cells. We recently discovered that immune responses can be triggered by injury leading to inflammation around the damaged nerve cells. Control of inflammation may therefore allow the remaining nerve cells to survive until treatments that enable them to regenerate can be developed.
http://www.neura.edu.au/health/nerve-and-spinal-cord-injury
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