To assess the effectiveness of selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) in reducing the acid
response to food, we have compared pre-and postoperative gastric acid and serum gastrin …

The endoscopic Congo red test allows accurate and rapid evaluation of the completeness of
vagotomy and may result in a lower incidence of postoperative incomplete vagotomy. This …

Knutson, U. & Olbe, L. Gastric acid response to sham feeding before and after resection of
antrum and duodenal bulb in duodenal ulcer patients. Scand. J. Gastroent. 1974, 9, 191 …

One of the main objectives of the introduction of highly selective vagotomy without
pyloroplasty in the treatment of duodenal ulceration has been to avoid the alteration in …

We have studied the gastric response to an ordinary solid-liquid meal in 12 patients with
active duodenal ulcer and 8 healthy volunteers. Our method employs gastric and duodenal …

Fifteen of these 42 patients had postoperative Page 1 THE EFFECTS OF VAGOTOMY ON THE
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE STOMACH IN PATIENTS WITH PEPTIC ULCER1 By JAMES S …

A prospective randomized trial of 40 duodenal ulcer patients is reviewed. The patients had
one of four operations (selective vagotomy, proximal gastric vagotomy, selective vagotomy …

Vagotomy was originally introduced in the treatment of duodenal ulcer as a method for
abolishing the neurogenic hypersecretion of gastric juice characteristic of this disease. 1 The …

There is a trend in gastric surgery towards more selective types of vagotomy but the
techniques are more difficult and incomplete nerve section may be more likely. Using the …

Maximal acid output and insulin tests were carried out in a series of 56 consecutive patients
who had either a truncal or a bilateral selective vagotomy and drainage operation. The …