[Histamine and the acid-secreting function of the stomach in patients with duodenal ulcer after organ-sparing operations].

Under study were 120 patients. It was established that the concentration of histamine in the blood of patients with the ulcer disease of the duodenum was not dissimilar of that in healthy people and could not be responsible for secretory disorders. Organ-preserving operations were found to considerably change the secretory function of the stomach without being followed by changes of the histamine concentration in blood. The histamine stimulation used for diagnostic purposes in ulcer disease of the duodenum is thought to be not expedient.