Mortality after vagotomy and pyloroplasty for duodenal ulcer.
A retrospective survey of 4,026 patients having truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty for duodenal ulceration showed a mortality rate of 1.4% (55 patients). On analysis the commonest causes of death were found to be bronchopneumonia 37% (18 patients) and sepsis 20% (10 patients). More than half of the deaths occurred in patients aged over 50.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001996:Bronchopneumonia / Q000401:mortality; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011708:Pylorus / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000401:mortality; D014628:Vagotomy / Q000401:mortality*