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  • Title: Changes in the surgical treatment of acid peptic disease.
    Author: Jensen MO, Bubrick MP, Onstad GR, Hitchcock CR.
    Journal: Am Surg; 1985 Oct; 51(10):556-8. PubMed ID: 4051331.
    Abstract:
    The surgical treatment of acid peptic disease at Hennpin County Medical Center (Minneapolis, MN) during two time periods separated by a 12-year interval was reviewed. In comparing the more recent period with the earlier, the following was observed: 1) total number of operations decreased by one-third, but the number of emergency operations was the same; 2) overall operative mortality did not change even though more patients in the recent period had associated systemic disease; 3) the location of ulcers did not change; 4) hemorrhage, as an indication for emergency surgery, increased both relatively and absolutely; and 5) the preferred surgical procedure during both periods was vagotomy and antrectomy, but vagotomy and drainage was done with increased frequency in the more recent period. During both time periods, emergency surgery was associated with almost a tenfold increase in operative mortality.
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