[Surgical treatment of gastroduodenal ulcers from 1968 to 1978]

Authors ten years experience and results in the surgical treatment of the gastroduodenal ulcer on Surgical clinic "Dr. M.Stojanovic" in Zagreb is esposed. During this period 1226 patients with the gastroduodenal ulcer operated, 804 from them with chronic, and 422 with acute complications as are perforation and bleeding. On the first period of time patients with the duodenal ulcer were operated by combined operative methods selective gastric vagotomy and antrectomy, and after 1975 by PSV with or without drainage procedure depent of the passage of the duodenum. The most of the patients with the gastric ulcer were operated by the Billroth I method of resection. PSV with suture of the perforated or bleeding ulcer of the duodenum is recommanded. 200 patients with chronic or acute complicated ulcer were operated by PSV with no death complication. All patients are normally tested before operation and 3 months, 12 months, and every year after operation. The results achieved by this method of the surgical treatment of the gastroduodenal ulcer are satisfied and harmonize with the modern therapy of ulcer disease.