[The choice of resection volume by the combination of perforative duodenal ulcer with other complications of the ulcer disease].

Treatment results of 59 patients with the complicated ulcer disease were analyzed. Authors prove, that in cases of perforative duodenal ulcer, the operation should aim the treatment of all the complications. The use of 2/3 gaster resection in combination with Jadd pyloroplasty and trunk vagotomy led to the decrease of the lethality rate on 21%.

[Surgical treatment of hiatal hernias].

17 patients suffering from axial hiatal hernias with marked duodenogastroesophageal reflux underwent surgical treatment including selective proximal vagotomy combined with formation of closing cardia mechanism, enhancement in are flux function of pylorus, correction of duodenostasis. Specific postoperative complications and lethal outcomes were not observed. Increase of life quality was observed among patients in early and long-term postoperative periods in comparison with preoperative indices. Relapses or regurgitation disturbances were not observed either.

[Immunomodulation and systematic enzymotherapy during surgical treatment of the duodenal ulcers].

The aim of our investigation was to study the influence of the systematic enzymotherapy on the results of surgical treatment of patients with duodenal ulcers. The immunological investigation was conducted on 77 patients with duodenal ulcers. The obtained results reveal the changes of immunological indexes in patients with duodenal ulcers. The process of rehabilitation with immunomodulative and enzymatic therapy after surgical treatment is analyzed and described.

The natural history of perforated foregut ulcers after repair by omental patching or primary closure.

BACKGROUND: The treatment of perforated foregut ulcers by omental patching (OP) or primary closure has mostly replaced vagotomy and pyloroplasty/antrectomy (VPA). We sought to determine the natural history and recurrence rate of ulceration in patients treated by omental patching or primary closure. STUDY DESIGN: An 11-year retrospective study. RESULTS: From 2004 through 2015, 94 patients had perforated foregut ulcers, 53 gastric, and 41 duodenal. 77 (82%) were treated by OP alone (study group) and 17 (18%) were treated with VPA (comparison group). All OP patients were discharged on PPIs, but only 86% took the drugs for a median of 22 months (1-192, SD 40). Endoscopy in the OP group showed recurrent ulcers in nine (12% recurrence rate) and gastritis in three (4%) This group also had three later recurrent perforations. Another recurrent ulcer hemorrhaged causing death (3% late mortality). Two other patients required non-emergent re-do ulcer operations for recurrent disease/symptoms (surgical re-intervention rate 4%). Total length of follow-up was median 44 months (1-192, SD 40) and was complete in 82 (87%). 18 (23%) patients in the OP group developed recurrent abdominal pain attributed to ulcer disease during follow-up, compared to 2 (12%) in the VPA group (p = 0.15). No patient in the VPA group had an endoscopic recurrence or re-intervention. CONCLUSION: Omental patching does not correct the underlying disease process which causes foregut perforation, and has a 12% endoscopically proven recurrent ulceration rate and a 23% incidence of recurrent symptoms within 44 months. Patients tend to stop taking PPIs after 22 months at which time their risk increases.

Laparoscopic highly selective vagotomy with nissen fundoplication: is there any role?

INTRODUCTION: Nissen fundoplication (NF) has not been a uniformly successful treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Acid lowering procedures such as highly selective vagotomy (HSV) have not yet been fully evaluated as an adjunctive treatment. NFHSV was evaluated in GERD. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between June 2003 and June 2005, 8 women with a history of 6 months of GERD unrelieved by medication, preprandial pain, peptic ulcer disease, or severe gastritis underwent laparoscopic NFHSV. They have been followed for a mean 12 months. Preoperative and postoperative Heartburn Severity scores (HSS) were obtained. RESULTS: Mean operative time was 110 minutes. There were no complications. One patient needed postoperative proton pump inhibitor, which was discontinued after smoking cessation 5 months after NFHSV. All 8 patients showed marked improvement in symptoms and HSS. CONCLUSIONS: This series lends credence to the notion that NFHSV was effective. Several studies need to be performed to demonstrate the full efficacy and safety of this approach.

[The application of the selective proximal vagotomy by the method of chemical denervation in treatment of patients of elderly and senile age suffering from the perforating pyloroduodenal ulcers].

The article presents the results of using the vagotomy of an acid-producing zone of a stomach by the method of chemical denervation. Subjects to the operation were 20 Wistar line male rats and 22 patients with perforating pyloroduodenal ulcers accompanied by cardio pathology. The simplicity, availability and low traumatism of the technique, in view of the low percent of a relapse of the pyloroduodenal ulcers, enable to recommend it for the treatment for the elderly patients with the heavy cardio pathology.

[Selective proximal vagotomy with duodenoplasty for the treatment of ulcerous duodenal stenosis].

Short- and long-term results of isolated selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) performed at non-complicated duodenal ulcer and SPV with duodenoplastic and drainage surgeries at ulcerous pyloroduodenal stenosis were analyzed. Principles of choice of duodenoplastic and drainage surgeries are discussed. Six variants of duodenoplasty is used depending on anatomic characteristics and localization of stenosis. Advantage of duodenoplasty over drainage surgeries is demonstrated. It is concluded that SPV with duodenoplasty should be regarded as surgical method of choice at the treatment of ulcerous duodenal stenosis because of low rate of stomach and duodenum functional disorders at long-term period after surgery.

[Surgical treatment at combination of duodenal ulcers with reflux-esophagitis].

Selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) was performed at 352 patients with duodenal ulcer (DU), 213 of them had reflux-esophagitis (RE). SPV was performed with correcting cardia function operations at all the patients (including ones without RE). It is demonstrated that SPV at combination of RE with DU is safe but effective surgical method and permits to achieve complete recovery from both diseases. SPV is radical if indications are correct and surgical technical requirements are fulfilled.

[Preventive surgical treatment of ulcer disease].

The state of gastric secretion in ulcer disease patients was investigated. Acidity was estimated by a computed analysis of 24 hour acidogastromonitoring with apparatus AG-24 MP "Gastroscan-24". The examination of 739 patients with chronic duodenal ulcers included 139 (18.8%) patients with exacerbation, 306 (41.1%) with bleeding, 185 (25%) after suturing the perforation, 59 (8%) with stenosis + 50 healthy subjects. A correlation was found between the efficiency of antisecretory drugs and "malignancy" of the course of ulcer disease. An aggressive type of the course of ulcer disease was determined in 178 patients with indications for operation, but the operations were not performed, in 102 out of them long-term results were followed up. The long-term results of operative treatment of uncomplicated ulcer were followed up in 181 (59%) patients.

Solid gastric emptying after highly selective vagotomy and pyloroplasty in patients with obstructing duodenal ulcer.

Before being superseded by medical management, highly selective vagotomy (HSV) without drainage was the procedure of choice for uncomplicated duodenal ulcer. It is also justified for complications, including perforation and bleeding in selected cases. This prospective study evaluated the effects of HSV plus drainage on solid gastric emptying in 20 patients with chronic duodenal ulcer and pyloric stenosis. Patients were treated with HSV plus pyloroplasty (Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty in five patients, Finney pyloroplasty in six patients and Jaboulay gastroduodenostomy in nine patients) and underwent solid-phase gastric emptying scintigraphic studies pre-operatively and 2 months and 6 months post-operatively. Results were compared with those from 10 controls. No significant differences were observed between the different types of pyloroplasty, although emptying was slightly faster in the gastroduodenostomy group. Gastric emptying returned to normal by 6 months post-operatively. In conclusion, HSV plus pyloroplasty is effective and can be used for the relief of stenosis in selected cases of duodenal ulcer.

An audit of peptic ulcer surgery in Ibadan, Nigeria.

BACKGROUND: Several operations are useful for peptic ulcer surgery, these include Vagotomy and pyloroplasty, Vagotomy and antrectomy, Vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy, and Highly Selective Vagotomy to name a few. Utilising any of these procedures may be due to the operator's preference or more importantly the suitability of the operation to the individual patient. This study was carried out to see the surgical presentation of chronic peptic ulcer disease patients and the form of ulcer-surgery utilised in the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study of all the patients who were operated on for complications of peptic ulcer disease between January 1990 and December 2003 at the above-mentioned institution by studying the case-files, ward admission records and operation room registers of such patients. RESULT: There were 122 patients, 90 male and 32 female with a Male:Female ratio of 3:1. Pyloric stenosis accounted for 56.6% of patients followed by perforation (29.5%), bleeding (9.8%) and gastric ulcer (4.1%). Yearly presentations seem to be reducing. Truncal vagotomy and drainage was performed in 78.64% of the patients, simple closure for perforation in 29.5%, partial gastrectomy for 4.1% while the remaining 2.4% had underunning of a bleeding vessel. CONCLUSION: Pyloric stenosis (also called gastric outlet obstruction) is the most common surgical presentation of peptic ulcer disease in the University College Hospital Ibadan and Truncal Vagotomy and drainage is the most common surgical procedure performed for peptic ulcer.

[Surgical treatment of bleedings from varicose veins of the esophagus and stomach]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie krovotechenii iz varikozno-rasshirennykh ven pishchevoda i zheludka.

Experience in surgical treatment of bleedings from varicose veins of the esophagus and stomach is analyzed. Two new methods of azygo-portal separation are offered, indications and contraindications, main principles of treatment before and after surgery, short- and long-term results are described.

[Resection of the stomach with excision of the small curvature and selective vagotomy in primary and reconstructive surgery of gastroduodenal ulcers]. / Rezektsiia zheludka s issecheniem maloi krivizny i selektivnoi vagotomiei v pervichnoi i rekonstruktivnoi khirurgii gastroduodenal'nykh iazv.

Experience in surgical treatment of 261 patients with complicated gastroduodenal ulcer is summarized. A new improved method of resection with subtotal excision of the small curvature and selective gastric vagotomy, creation of a gastric stump in the form of a proximal reservoir and distal tubular canal was used. In 144 cases this method was performed as repeated or reconstructive surgery in post-vagotomic ulcers. The follow-up was 5 years, long-term results were evaluated in 166 patients with the Visik scale. Excellent and good results were seen in 151 (91%) patients, satisfactory -- in 13 (7.8%), and a poor result (recurrence of ulcer) -- in 2 (1.2%) patients.

[Surgical strategies in perforated of gastroduodenal ulcers combined with penetration and stenosis].

One hundred and twenty-six patients aged 14 to 88 years underwent surgery concerning perforative ulcer os stomach and duodenum. Forty-seven patients had symptoms of stenosis including 23 patients with penetration. It is demonstrated that vagotomy, incision of ulcer with duodenoplasty or pyloro-duodenoplasty permit to treat successfully perforative ulcers and to achieve good functional results in long-term period.

[Surgical treatment of ulcer disease in arterio-mesenterial compression of the duodenum]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie iazvennoi bolezni pri arteromezenterial'noi kompressii dvenadtsatiperstnoi kishki.

Experience in surgical treatment of 124 patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers associated with chronic duodenal obstruction due to arterio-mesenterial compression of the duodenum is analyzed. This combination occurred in 12% of all patients with ulcers over 20-year period. Special methods of examination were used for diagnosis: probe duodenography with duodeno-manometry, hepato-bili-scintigraphy. Differential approach to choice of surgical method was developed, and two original methods of surgery are presented: selective proximal vagotomy and resection of the stomach in combination with duodeno-jejuno-anastomosis. Long-term results were studied in 75 patients, and in 93% of them they were assessed as excellent and good. Quality of life of patients after surgery depends on severity of chronic duodenal insufficiency.

Proximal gastric vagotomy and mucosal antrectomy: a possible operative approach to duodenal ulcer.

Our aim was to develop proximal gastric vagotomy with mucosal antrectomy as an operative approach to duodenal ulcer. We performed mucosal antrectomy in four dogs by excising the antral mucosa via a circular corporal myotomy, removing a circumferential band of corporal seromuscularis, anastomosing the corporal and pyloric mucosas endoantrally, and reapproximating the corporal and antral seromuscularis. Gastric emptying and serum gastrin were assessed before and 4 weeks after operation. A second operation, proximal gastric vagotomy, was then done, and the tests were repeated 4 weeks later. The concentration of gastrin in the serum during fasting was lower after mucosal antrectomy than before operation, as was the postprandial concentration; the values remained low after proximal gastric vagotomy. Gastric emptying of liquids and indigestible solids was unaltered by mucosal antrectomy or mucosal antrectomy plus proximal gastric vagotomy. The emptying of digestible solids was slowed somewhat by mucosal antrectomy to 75% of the control rate, but no further change was found after proximal gastric vagotomy. We concluded that mucosal antrectomy eliminated the gastrin-producing antral mucosa and, in combination with proximal gastric vagotomy, did not greatly alter gastric emptying of liquids or solids. The combined operation might have a role in the surgical treatment of duodenal ulcer.

Comparison of minimally invasive methods of parietal cell vagotomy in a porcine model.

BACKGROUND: Parietal cell vagotomy (PCV) is an accepted therapy for peptic ulcer disease. Traditional operative PCV results may be obtained laparoscopically or endoscopically. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate newer methods of PCV. METHODS: Variations in PCV, gastroscopic chemoneurolysis and laparoscopic photoneurolysis, were evaluated in 20 to 25 kg pigs. Traditional operative PCV was performed by laparotomy and served as the operative control. With a posterior truncal vagotomy, a PCV was performed laparoscopically by an anterior seromyotomy with either operative division of the neurovascular bundles with titanium clips or with a defocused CO2 laser. Transesophageal gastroscopic PCV was performed by transmucosal injections of the chemoneurolytic agents, 0.75% cobaltous chloride or 0.1% benzalkonium chloride. Adequacy of PCV at the time of operation was assessed by endoscopic Congo red testing. Two weeks later, repeat Congo red testing was performed by open gastrotomy. Quantitation of completeness of PCV and statistical comparison was determined by photographing the pentagastrin-stimulated gastric mucosa 5 minutes after Congo red application and subsequent comparison of innervated area versus total gastric mucosal area by a computer-driven digitized area-calculation program. RESULTS: All PCV techniques studied produced significant acid-secretory reduction, and both laparoscopic and gastroscopic PCV denervated the parietal cells in a manner comparable with operative PCV. Laser photoneurolysis could only be accomplished by producing full-thickness necrosis of the gastric wall. Submucosal injection of cobaltous chloride produced granulomatous nodules with foreign body crystals. Unlike operative and laparoscopic PCV, transmucosal gastroscopic benzalkonium PCV did not produce gross gastroparesis. CONCLUSIONS: All evaluated laparoscopic and endoscopic PCV techniques effectively denervated the parietal cells of the porcine stomach when evaluated at 2 weeks after treatment. Gastroscopic submucosal injection of benzalkonium chloride produced effective denervation with no evident histologic tissue changes and suggestive evidence of normal gastric emptying. Further evaluation with more extended periods of observation of these new techniques of performing PCV appear warranted.

Proximal gastric vagotomy versus selective vagotomy with antrectomy: results of a prospective, randomized clinical trial after four to twelve years.

This prospective, randomized study of selective vagotomy with antrectomy (SVA) versus proximal gastric vagotomy (PGV) for patients with duodenal ulcer compares the incidence of recurrent duodenal ulcer and postoperative morbidity during a 4- to 12-year follow-up period. In 46 patients with SVA there were no recurrent ulcers, but 26% of these individuals had serious digestive problems that were not amenable to medical treatment. The 40 patients with PGV had eight recurrent ulcers (20%), but five of these were found in the first 15 patients (33%) compared with three in the 25 patients (12%) who had operations after the need for extensive periesophageal denervation was discovered in the mid-1970s. Most recurrent ulcers were amenable to medical treatment, but 5% of the patients who had PGV had postoperative dysphagia that required periodic bougienage. The data are consistent with several interpretations, depending on the bias of the individual. However, based upon the fact that recurrent ulcers could be managed nonoperatively after PGV versus the lack of effective treatments for postgastrectomy complaints after SVA, it is reasonable to consider wider use of PGV. There are reasons to believe that the variable ulcer recurrence rates after PGV can be explained by subtle differences in operative technique, including those based upon use of the Congo red test for completeness of vagotomy. Unlike SVA, PGV remains an operative procedure in evolution that requires further clinical investigation. At this time either operation can be applied if both the surgeon and the patient have a clear understanding of the possible effects.

Proximal gastric vagotomy and mucosal antrectomy: effect on gastric acid secretion, plasma gastrin, and experimental ulcerogenesis in the dog.

The aim of this study was to determine whether mucosal antrectomy, which preserves antropyloric motility, would enhance the antiulcer properties of proximal gastric vagotomy (PGV). Hydrochloric acid and gastrin secretion were studied in five dogs before and after PGV and mucosal antrectomy, while the response to the Mann-Williamson operation (an ulcer-producing operation) was evaluated in four control dogs with intact stomachs, five dogs with PGV alone, and six dogs with PGV plus mucosal antrectomy. Proximal gastric vagotomy and mucosal antrectomy decreased mean +/- SEM basal and pentagastrin-stimulated acid secretion from 4.3 +/- 1.3 to 0.4 +/- 0.3 mEq/hr and from 21 +/- 0.7 to 7.4 +/- 1.8 mEq/hr, respectively (p less than 0.05). Basal plasma gastrin was altered little by the operation (68 +/- 9.7 pg/ml before, 58 +/- 11 pg/ml after; p greater than 0.05) but the 4-hour integrated plasma gastrin response to a 200 gm meat meal decreased from 13 +/- 1.8 to 3.3 +/- 0.7 ng X min/ml (p less than 0.05). Only one of six dogs with mucosal antrectomy and PGV developed peptic ulcer after the Mann-Williamson operation, whereas four of five with PGV alone and three of four controls developed ulcers (p less than 0.05, PGV alone versus PGV and mucosal antrectomy). In conclusion, PGV and mucosal antrectomy decreased acid secretion and postcibal gastrin response and provided greater protection against peptic ulcer than PGV alone.

Duodenoplasty and proximal gastric vagotomy in peptic stenosis. Experience with 43 cases.

Experience with 43 duodenoplasties as a complementary procedure of proximal gastric vagotomy used in peptic duodenal stenosis was reviewed. After a rigid protocol aimed at treating the metabolic imbalance, gastric dilation, and activity of the ulcer, the cases were very similar to elective ones. Two types of duodenoplasty were most commonly employed: anterior duodenectomy with a transverse duodenorrhaphy (26 cases) and Finney's duodenoplasty (15 cases). No deaths or serious complications were reported. The only operative accident was a splenic lesion with splenectomy. Two recurrences were observed. The patients were followed up from January 1978.