Abstract:Within 11 years 279 operations for acute bleeding from gastroduodenal ulcers were performed at the surgical University Clinic in Würzburg. Of the 279 patients, 140 had to be operated on immediately because of acute severe bleeding. Of the 158 bleeding duodenal ulcers, 104 had a selective proximal vagotomy (SPV), 29 had gastric resection, and in 25 the ulcer was simply closed. The overall mortality after SPV was 8.6%, 62% after gastric resection, and 40% after simple suture ligation. Recurrent bleeding occurred… Show more
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