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, July 7, 2013

"Patients report that they feel less anxious in stressful situations. Stage fright is reduced. The results are usually permanent."

http://neuro.templehealth.org/content/ETShyperhidrosis.htm

Sympathectomy, (ETS, VATS, ESB and many other names for the same procedure) affects emotional responses, fear responses, arousal, etc. It changes a person's  ability to feel and respond to emotions. It changes drive, attention, mobilisation.
Patients sign up for a surgery to treat sweaty hands, and not 'adjustments' to their emotions and personality.