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What is the medical term meaning incision of the vagus nerve?
Vagotomy is surgical incision of the vagus nerve. Vagotomy can be used, for instance, as a treatment for ulcers.
What are the normal results of a vagotomy?
Ulcers recur in about 10% of those who have vagotomy without stomach removal. Recurrent ulcers are also found in 2-3% of patients who have some portion of their stomach removed.
How common are surgeries for gastric and peptic ulcers?
Vagotomy, antrectomy , pyloroplasty are surgeries for gastric and peptic ulcers, now very rare
Why is a vagotomy performed?
The purpose of the procedure is to disable the acid-producing capacity of the stomach. It is used when ulcers in the stomach and duodenum do not respond to medication and changes in diet.
What is a antrectomy?
The lower half of the stomach makes most of the acid and gets all the peptic ulcers above the duodenum. Removing it leaves little place for ulcers to form and little acid to produce them.
How long is the hospital stay for a vagotomy?
Patients who have had a vagotomy stay in the hospital for about seven days.
Why do you think reducing the amount of acid in the stomach would help to heal stomach ulcers?
Because then the mucus will have time to come back and protect the stomach lining from creating ulcers.
What other surgeries are done at the same time as a vagotomy?
Often, other gastrointestinal surgery is performed at the same time as the vagotomy. Part of the stomach may be removed, for instance. Vagotomy causes a decrease in peristalsis and a change in the emptying patterns of the stomach.
What is a parietal cell vagotomy?
Parietal cell or proximal gastric vagotomy leaves the trunk intact, but severs the branches that go to different parts of the stomach.
What is a procedure commonly performed in conjunction with a pylorplasty?
Vagotomy
What has the author Ladislav Langer written?
Ladislav Langer has written: 'Vagotomy and antropylorectomy in the surgical treatment of peptic ulcer' -- subject(s): Peptic ulcer, Surgery, Vagotomy
Can stomach ulcers come from being upset?
No being upset cannot cause ulcers. If you would like to read more about stomach ulcers you check the Related Link section to the left.
