[A comparative evaluation of the efficacy of pylorus-destroying and pylorus-preserving operations with vagotomy in bleeding duodenal ulcers].

Results are analyzed of surgical treatment of 230 patients with duodenal ulcer complicated by bleeding, who underwent vagotomy and pylorus-nonsparing and pylorus-sparing operations. Of these, 110 patients were subjected to vagotomy involving pyloroplasty, 120 to selective proximal vagotomy with duodenoplasty. Results of postoperative 3- to 5-yr survival are analyzed. A method is suggested for treatment of postvagotomy syndromes.