Postvagotomy diarrhea

Clinical and laboratory study of postvagotomy diarrhoea.

Thirty-two patients with diarrhoea, on average four years following truncal vagotomy and drainage, were studied. A comparison was made with 24 patients without postvagotomy diarrhoea. The incidence of bacterial colonization of the upper small intestine was no different in the two groups, though patients with a gastroenterostomy had a significantly higher incidence than those with a pyloroplasty...

Campylobacter Diarrhea

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[Diarrhea].

A 50-year-old female patient complained about watery diarrhea for two weeks. Because of back pain nonsteroidal antirheumatics had been prescribed for months before. The endoscopic and radiologic investigation demonstrated a large gastrocolic fistula due to NSAID-induced gastric ulceration and an acid-induced colitis in the transverse colon. Treatment consisted in partial gastric resection and r...

The predictive accuracy of the postvagotomy insulin test: A new interpretation.

Insulin-stimulated gastric secretion alone, without reference to basal secretion, has been examined in 45 male patients with duodenal ulcer in whom no gastric operation had been performed and in 124 patients following vagotomy for duodenal ulcer. Gastric juice was examined in terms not only of conventional indices, observed volume, titratable acidity and acid output, but also Vg, the volume cor...

Psychogenic diarrhea.