[Laparoscopic vagotomy in the treatment of recurrent duodenal ulcer]

The paper represents our results of laparoscopic vagotomies. In 1993 was the first successful laparoscopic vagotomy in Slovakia performed, at the 1st Department of Surgery, Faculty Hospital, Bratislava. From this time 10 operations with front superselective and dorsal truncal vagotomy were performed. Effectiveness of vagotomy was controlled after 12 months by examination of the gastric acidity. Decrease of gastric acidity in average above 61% was reached. Laparoscopic vagotomy, despite dominant conservative treatment of peptic ulcer, is the method of choice, if the conservative treatment is unsuccessful. (Fig. 3, Ref. 6.)