title: Conservative surgery for bleeding duodenal ulcer--vagotomy and pyloroplasty.
abstract: 50 unselected cases of bleeding duodenal ulcer were treated by vagotomy and pyloroplasty with suturing of the bleeding vessels. The operative mortality was 8% of which recurrent haemorrhage accounted for 6% of the patients. The operative mortality was related to advanced age, severity of bleed and associated medical illnesses. Vagotomy-pyloroplasty with suture ligation is technically easy to perform for bleeding duodenal ulcer and has a low incidence of recurrent haemorrhage.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011708:Pylorus / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014628:Vagotomy / Q000401:mortality