Factors Affecting the Mortality from Peptic Ulcer

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Abstract
THE overall mortality rate for elective subtotal gastrectomy at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital is 0.4 per cent. The mortality rate for emergency subtotal gastrectomy done for acute massive bleeding is 21 per cent.1 Forty per cent of the bleeding patients were over sixty-five years of age. The majority of patients dying after subtotal gastrectomy for massive peptic-ulcer hemorrhage were over sixty years of age.This retrospective clinical study was undertaken to evaluate our past experience with subtotal gastrectomy for peptic ulcer and possibly to define the factors that accounted for the deaths in this series. This article deals separately . . .