A vagotomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the vagus nerve. It is performed in the abdomen. A plain vagotomy eliminates afferent...
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Vagus nerve (section Vagotomy)
As of 2008[update], a yearlong double-blind, phase II trial had begun. Vagotomy (cutting of the vagus nerve) is a now obsolete therapy that was performed...
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Post-vagotomy diarrhea is a form of diarrhea which occurs in 10% of people after a truncal vagotomy, which can range from severe to debilitating in approximately...
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subsequent bilateral vagotomy. Cats with pontine lesions had a prolonged inhalation duration. In cats, after anaesthesia and vagotomy, pontine transaction...
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syndrome chronic diarrhea. Colestyramine is also useful in treating post-vagotomy diarrhea. Colestyramine can be helpful in the treatment of Clostridium...
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the antral portion of the stomach. Other surgical approaches include: vagotomy, the severing of the vagus nerve, the Billroth I, a procedure which involves...
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(BII) reconstruction method. Quite often, antrectomy is used alongside vagotomy to maximise its safety and effectiveness. Modern antrectomies typically...
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predominance with regard to GERD. An obsolete treatment is vagotomy ("highly selective vagotomy"), the surgical removal of vagus nerve branches that innervate...
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leiomyoma Nervous disorders, such as bulbar palsy, pseudobulbar palsy, post-vagotomy, myasthenia gravis Crohn's disease Candida esophagitis Eosinophilic esophagitis...
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the peripheral nervous system Cranial and peripheral nerves Nerve block Vagotomy Axotomy Neurectomy Sympathetic nervous system Ganglionectomy Sympathectomy...
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which supplies the pylorus. It is cut in selective vagotomy and preserved in highly selective vagotomy. It functions by increasing peristalsis and relaxing...
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Bainbridge reflex is destroyed), and can be entirely abolished by bilateral vagotomy (as the afferent portion of the reflex arc is entirely destroyed). The...
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motility in the stomach (gastroparesis) and surgeries on the stomach (such as vagotomy or gastric bypass) are associated with the development of phytobezoars...
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the case of hiatal hernia or other esophageal type Roemheld syndrome. Vagotomy, a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the vagus nerve. Beta...
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past a gastrectomy for peptic ulcer disease was often accompanied by a vagotomy, to reduce acid production. This problem is now managed with proton pump...
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N, Liu J, Shaheen S, Du L, Proctor M, Roman J, et al. (August 2015). "Vagotomy attenuates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice". Scientific Reports...
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surgery Vertical sleeve gastrectomy Roux-en-Y gastric bypass Selective vagotomy (snipping the vagus nerve, effectively stopping hunger sensations). Mini...
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of the esophagus Devascularization of the proximal part of the stomach Vagotomy and pyeloroplasty Khanna AK, Misra MK, Gupta S, Sharma OP, Jain AK, Gupta...
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procedure for patients that have regained weight after gastric bypass Vagotomy—Cutting of the vagus nerve to reduce the feeling of hunger Syn, Nicholas...
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Sympathectomy/Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy · Neurectomy Axotomy · Vagotomy Nerve biopsy Endocrine Hypophysectomy · Thyroidectomy · Parathyroidectomy ·...
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structural changes Bariatric surgery (Weight loss surgery) Gastrectomy; Vagotomy Due to mucosal abnormality Coeliac disease Cows' milk intolerance Fructose...
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Heidelberg (1997). ISBN 9783642592508. With A. C. Yankah and R. Hetzer "Vagotomy through mediastinoscopy for pulmonary osteoarthropathy. British Journal...
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Secondary to various gastrointestinal diseases including cholecystectomy, vagotomy, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, radiation enteropathy, celiac disease...
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the carotid sinus is used to treat Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity. In a vagotomy, the vagus nerve is surgically removed to treat peptic ulcer disease through...
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distension abnormalities in dysmotility like functional dyspepsia and after vagotomy". Gut. 37 (1). BMJ: 17–22. doi:10.1136/gut.37.1.17. ISSN 0017-5749. PMC 1382761...
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level of hormones doesn't change. The administration of atropine, the vagotomy, blocks pancreatic polypeptide secretion after meals. The excitation of...
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intestines and suppresses glucose production even under subdiaphragmatic vagotomy or gut vagal deafferentation. This interrupts the neural connection between...
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test for achlorhydria in the stomach, to test adequacy of vagotomy ( post adequate vagotomy, gastric acid secretion is abolished) and to detect presence...
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such as electrical vagal stimulation, muscarinic receptor blockade, and vagotomy. More problematic is the interpretation of the LF component, which was...
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performed by itself; it is most commonly paired with another procedure like a vagotomy. Nearly 4 million people in the US have PUD. It is estimated that 5 out...
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