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.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf
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
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cardiovascular effects, tremulousness and sweating produced by thyroid hormones can be reduced or abolished by sympathectomy
Although, plasma catecholamine levels are normal in hyperthyroidism, the cardiovascular effects, tremulousness and sweating produced by thyroid hormones can be reduced or abolished by sympathectomy. (p. 133)
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