Vagotomy is a surgery where part of your vagus nerve is removed. Until antacid medications and stomach bacteria treatments came along, this was one of the main treatments for peptic ulcer disease.

The operation of the hour is vagotomy, which owes its popularity to the imperfections of its immediate predecessor, subtotal gastrectomy. Although comparative results of medical and surgical ...

Back to Healio Patients who underwent vagotomy were at greater risk for later development of inflammatory bowel disease, indicating the beneficial role of the vagal tone in IBD, according to ...

BERLIN — Truncal vagotomy is associated with a reduced risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD) at more than 5 years after the procedure, a study reports. The finding supports the hypothesis ...

If it really is correct that Parkinson's starts in the gut and spreads through the vagus nerve, then these vagotomy patients should naturally be protected against developing Parkinson's disease ...

A new study reports that subdiaphragmatic vagotomy reduces intake of sweet-tasting solutions in rats, and eliminate the hedonic perception produced by sucrose and saccharin in rats. Previous ...

The patient is a 46-year-old woman with a nonhealing prepyloric ulcer. She had what sounds like a highly selective vagotomy in 1995. She was diagnosed in 2002 with a prepyloric ulcer, which was ...

The role of the vagus nerve in control of the MMC seems to be restricted to the stomach, as vagotomy abolishes the motor activity in the stomach, but leaves the periodic activity in the small ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had a vagotomy and antrectomy in 1980. I'm 76 now and for the past several years have been anemic. My doctor gave me five B-12 shots, and I have been taking B-12 pills for the ...