Effect of anterior highly selective vagotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy versus highly selective vagotomy on gastric secretion

ABSTRACT

Of forty patients with uncomplicated chronic duodenal ulcer 20 underwent anterior highly selective with posterior truncal vagotomy and the other 20 patients were treated by highly selective vagotomy. Insulin test was performed at the end of the first postoperative months; all patients had negative results. Gastric acidity, six months after anterior highly selective with posterior truncal vagotomy was reduced by 66.02% in basal acid output, and by 62.39% in the maximal acid output. In the mean time, gastric acidity after highly selective vagotomy was reduced by 63.85% in basal acid output and by 50.46% in maximal acid output