Organ-sparing operations in bleeding ulcers of the pylorus and duodenum

The organ-preserving operations were performed in 387, gastric resection--in 142, closure or excision of an ulcer without vagotomy--in 132 patients with bleeding pyloroduodenal ulcers. The lethality after gastric resection was 11.3%: after the emergency operations--16.3%; after early elective interventions--9.1%; after the organ-preserving operations--2.6, 5.3, 0.85%, respectively.