title: Truncal vagotomy and resection in the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
abstract: A retrospective analysis was conducted of 466 patients who underwent elective truncal vagotomy with antrectomy or hemigastrectomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. The postoperative (30-day) mortality was 1.1%. In 412 of 466 patients (88.4%), follow-up was obtained, and in 290 patients alive at the writing of this paper, the mean follow-up was 17.1 years; the remaining 54 patients (11.6%) were lost to follow-up. The overall ulcer recurrence rate was 0.7%. Severe postoperative sequelae--postvagotomy diarrhea and postgastrectomy dumping--were uncommon--0.7% and 1.0% of patients, respectively. The combination of truncal vagotomy and gastric resection is a viable alternative in the surgical treatment of chronic duodenal ulcer disease and is the authors' operation of choice for most such patients.
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D004377:Dumping Syndrome / Q000209:etiology; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013270:Stomach / Q000601:surgery; D014628:Vagotomy / Q000379:methods*