title: [In Process Citation]
abstract: The complex study of the indices of local immune and natural resistance in the parietal mucus of the gastroduodenal zone and general immunity in 174 patients with duodenal ulcer disease before and after surgical treatment was performed. Pronounced suppression of local immunity, presence of autoimmune processes having influence on its indices were noted. After the organ-preserving operations with an ulcer excision, the immune indices restored more rapidly than after gastric resection and vagotomy without an ulcer excision.