EFFECTS OF HIGHLY SELECTIVE VAGOTOMY ON SECRETION AND EMPTYING OF STOMACH

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 145  (6) , 826-836
Abstract
The results of a prospective study of 60 patients with nonobstructuve duodenal ulcer treated by highly selective vagotomy showed that the gastric acid secretion postoperatively was effectively reduced. Judgment of completeness of highly selective vagotomy was only possible by means of an intragastric pH-metry during operation. The Hollander test answered it insufficiently. In a number of patients, highly selective vagotomy caused a fast initial phase of gastric emptying of porridge. The contractional activity of the antrum probably had the same pattern before and after highly selective vagotomy.