[Gastric motility after vagotomy (author's transl)].

1. Ulcer disease cause a change of gastric emptying; in patients with gastric ulcer gastric emptying of a semisolid meal is delayed as well as in patients with stenosis in the pyloricregion; patients with an uncomplicated duodenal ulceration shows an accelerated gastric emptying. 2. Vagotomy results in relation to the type of vagotomy and to the degree of desection of anteral muscles a delay of gastric emptying of a semi solid and liquid food until over the 6th postoperative month. 3. After selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) the gastric emptying is also but shortly delayed. 4. There is a correlation between the disturbed gastric emptying after vagotomy and the altered absorption of glucose.