[Improvement of treatment results in patients with peptic ulcer]

A total of 980 patients operated on for peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum were followed up. Out of them 784 (80%) patients had complications: 273 (27.9%)--perforations, 263 (26.8%)--bleedings, 165 (16.8%)--stenosis, 67 (6.8%)--penetration, 16 (1.6%)--malignant transformation of the ulcer, the rest of them, 19 (20%) patients, had chronic callous ulcers. Factors of risk for complications associated with peptic ulcer were indicated. Timely planned surgical intervention advancing the development of severe complications is found to be necessary for the improvement of the therapeutic response.