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  • Title: A district general hospital experience of surgical treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer from 1970 to 1982.
    Author: McEntee G, Ryan W, Peel AL, Rosenberg IL, Devlin HB.
    Journal: Surg Gynecol Obstet; 1988 Jul; 167(1):53-60. PubMed ID: 3381186.
    Abstract:
    Seven hundred and thirteen patients who had undergone 793 operations for peptic ulcer disease during the years 1970 to 1982 were subsequently referred to a gastric follow-up clinic. The indications for initial elective surgical treatment (514) were failed medical management (448), recent hemorrhage (32) and obstruction of gastric outflow (34); for initial emergency surgical treatment (199), the indications were hemorrhage (97) and perforation (102). Reoperation was required in 80 patients-previous perforation (40), recurrent ulcer (32), reperforation (three), hemorrhage (three) and obstruction of gastric outflow (two). The over-all postoperative mortality rate was 4.2 per cent (33 of 713); 15 deaths occurred after elective surgical treatment (2.5 per cent) and 18 after emergency surgical treatment (8.6 per cent). The postoperative morbidity expressed in terms of duration of postoperative stay was unaltered for each procedure throughout the study period. Follow-up attendance rates at one, three, five and ten years were 86, 85, 74 and 28 per cent, respectively. Iron deficiency anemia was detected in 13.6 per cent of gastric resection procedures and 1.6 per cent of vagotomy and drainage procedures. No instances of macrocytic anemia and only two instances of asymptomatic metabolic bone disease were recorded. By providing accurate data for surgical audit, which suggested that screening for metabolic sequelae in the first decade after surgical treatment is not indicated and which resulted in alteration of policy toward peptic ulcer perforation, a specific follow-up clinic has proved valuable in formulating the over-all management policy regarding surgical treatment for peptic ulcer.
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