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, 27 October 2014

Ablation of the Sympathetic Nervous System Decreases Gram-Negative and Increases Gram-Positive Bacterial Dissemination: Key Roles for Tumor Necrosis Factor/Phagocytes and Interleukin-4/Lymphocytes

In both models, the peritoneal wall was the critical border for systemic infection. These results show the dual role of the sympathetic nervous system in sepsis. It can be favorable or unfavorable, depending on the innate immune effector mechanisms necessary to overcome infection
There is now agreement that sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome are accompanied by a dysregulation of the inflammatory response. During the onset of sepsis, the inflammatory system becomes hyperactive, evoking a strong anti-inflammatory feedback response by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). 
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/192/4/560.full
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