Interference with the esophageal hiatus during surgical procedures such as vagotomy may predispose to reflux esophagitis. |
Physiological changes which occur in the gall bladder following truncal vagotomy for peptic ulcer disease may contribute to the formation of gall stones. |
Postsurgical gastroparesis is most often a consequence of peptic ulcer surgery with concurrent performance of vagotomy. |
Ten years before the incident, he had undergone cholecystectomy, vagotomy and pyloroplasty. |
Antibiotics have made cardiac valve surgery for rheumatic fever a bygone and the hemigastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer a rarity. |
A vagotomy is usually done in conjunction with an antrectomy. |