| Truncal vagotomy to reduce gastric acid production is the preferred surgical management approach. |
| Ten years before the incident, he had undergone cholecystectomy, vagotomy and pyloroplasty. |
| Interference with the esophageal hiatus during surgical procedures such as vagotomy may predispose to reflux esophagitis. |
| Antibiotics have made cardiac valve surgery for rheumatic fever a bygone and the hemigastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer a rarity. |
| In addition to Crohn's disease, the syndrome has occurred in two patients with Meckel's diverticulum and two individuals who had had a vagotomy. |
| A vagotomy involves cutting the vagus nerve, which is the nerve that transmits messages from the brain to the stomach. |
