title: [Vagotomy for the surgical treatment of severe gastroduodenal hemorrhages].
abstract: 24 patients (8 female, 16 male) with severe gastroduodenal haemorrhage were treated by vagotomy; in 17 cases highly selective vagotomy was performed, in 3 case truncal vagotomy + pyloroplasty and in 4 patients vagotomy was combined with excision or purse-string suture of the ulcer. Treatment was effective in 23 patients, without recurrence of haemorrhage. In 19 patients vagotomy not only curbed the bleeding but provided definitive therapy (Visick I-II); 4 patients died (mortality rate 16%).
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000601:surgery; D014628:Vagotomy / Q000401:mortality; D014629:Vagotomy, Proximal Gastric / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Die Vagotomie im Konzept zur chirurgischen Behandlung schwerer gastroduodenaler Blutungen.