title: Parietal cell vagotomy: 10-15 years' results.
abstract: In the Department of Surgery, University Central Hospital of Turku, 197 patients underwent parietal cell vagotomy (PCV) for duodenal or pyloric-prepyloric ulcer in the years 1973-79. During follow-up for 10-15 years, 14 patients had died (none related to ulcer disease) and nine were lost to follow-up leaving 174 patients for the study. There were 21 proven recurrences of ulcer (12%), 16 after original duodenal ulcer (10%) and five after pyloric or prepyloric ulcer (26%). Late symptoms occurred as follows: Dyspepsia 19%, heartburn 17%, oesophageal reflux 16%, vomiting 7%, epigastric fullness 12%, dumping 8% and diarrhoea 7%. One patient underwent Nissen fundoplication for severe heartburn and mild oesophagitis without improvement. According to the Visick classification the overall result was excellent or good in 68%; the failure rate was 18%.--
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PCV was satisfactory when used for duodenal ulcer, but after pyloric or prepyloric ulcer the recurrence rate was probably too high to be acceptable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nylamo
mesh_terms: D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005745:Gastric Acidity Determination; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery; D010439:Peptic Ulcer Perforation / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D014629:Vagotomy, Proximal Gastric