[Biliary gastritis after partial gastrectomy by the Maki method]

An assessment was carried out of 93 patients operated on in the years 1977-91 in the Surgery Department of the hospital in Jasło for gastric ulcer by Maki method. The assessment included the incidence of the so called "biliary gastritis". It was carried out on the basis of history taking, endoscopic and histopathological examinations. Surgical operations were performed by two methods: the first included sparing of pyloric innervation, the other was without sparing. In the group with sparing of innervation (33 studied subjects) no changes of biliary gastritis character were found. In the group without sparing (58 patients), biliary gastritis was found in 14 cases (24.1%) which was a statistically significant difference. The applied modification of Maki operation with sparing of pyloric innervation is presented.