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, June 5, 2012

Postural Hypotension and Postural Dizziness

The subjects were 204 consecutive non–insulin-dependent patients with diabetes and 408 age- and sex-matched nondiabetic control subjects who underwent physical examinations for preventive reasons at the National Cheng Kung University Hospital between October 1992 and September 1994. Subjects were excluded from the study for sympathectomy, anemia, thyroid disorder, pregnancy, chronic alcohol use, and/or use of anti-Parkinson drugs, narcotics, sedatives, antipsychotic agents, or antidepressants within 2 weeks of the study. The subjects with diabetes included 114 men and 90 women with a mean age ± SD of 57.9 ± 10.5 years. The nondiabetic control subjects were 228 men and 180 women with a mean age ± SD of 57.1 ± 9.5 years.
Postural Hypotension and Postural Dizziness in Patients With Non–Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Jin-Shang Wu, MD; Feng-Hwa Lu, MD; Yi-Ching Yang, MD; Chih-Jen Chang, MD
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Arch Intern Med. 1999;159(12):1350-1356. doi:10-1001/pubs.Arch Intern Med.-ISSN-0003-9926-159-12-ioi80679