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

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Effect of lumbar sympathectomy: abolition of ejaculation, causalgia in 41, general morbidity of 0.6% and mortality rate of 0.6 %, arrhythmias, cardiac decompensation

Goldstein, reviewing the complications of 791 patients undergoing open lumbar sympathectomy reports 10% of specific complications, such as abolition of ejaculation in 22 patients and causalgia in 41, general morbidity of 0.6% (TEP and bleeding) and mortality rate of 0.6 % (arrhythmias, cardiac decompensation or bleeding) 15.

SIMPACTECTOMIA RETROPERITONEOSCÓPICA FOR TREATMENT OF LUMBAR plantar hyperhidrosis RETROPERITONEOSCOPIC lumbar sympathectomy FOR THE TREATMENT OF PLANT HYPERIDROSIS
Marcelo de Paula Loureiro, TCBC-PR ¹, ² Neomar Roman, Sheila Cristina Weigmann ³;
Aline ³ Fontana, Paulo Cesar Bufara Boscardim4
(Rev Bras ECR. Cir. 2007, 34 (4): 222-224).
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