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...

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...

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...

subsequent bilateral vagotomy. Cats with pontine lesions had a prolonged inhalation duration. In cats, after anaesthesia and vagotomy, pontine transaction...

syndrome chronic diarrhea. Colestyramine is also useful in treating post-vagotomy diarrhea. Colestyramine can be helpful in the treatment of Clostridium...

the antral portion of the stomach. Other surgical approaches include: vagotomy, the severing of the vagus nerve, the Billroth I, a procedure which involves...

(BII) reconstruction method. Quite often, antrectomy is used alongside vagotomy to maximise its safety and effectiveness. Modern antrectomies typically...

predominance with regard to GERD. An obsolete treatment is vagotomy ("highly selective vagotomy"), the surgical removal of vagus nerve branches that innervate...

leiomyoma Nervous disorders, such as bulbar palsy, pseudobulbar palsy, post-vagotomy, myasthenia gravis Crohn's disease Candida esophagitis Eosinophilic esophagitis...

the peripheral nervous system Cranial and peripheral nerves Nerve block Vagotomy Axotomy Neurectomy Sympathetic nervous system Ganglionectomy Sympathectomy...

which supplies the pylorus. It is cut in selective vagotomy and preserved in highly selective vagotomy. It functions by increasing peristalsis and relaxing...

Bainbridge reflex is destroyed), and can be entirely abolished by bilateral vagotomy (as the afferent portion of the reflex arc is entirely destroyed). The...

motility in the stomach (gastroparesis) and surgeries on the stomach (such as vagotomy or gastric bypass) are associated with the development of phytobezoars...

the case of hiatal hernia or other esophageal type Roemheld syndrome. Vagotomy, a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the vagus nerve. Beta...

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...

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...

surgery Vertical sleeve gastrectomy Roux-en-Y gastric bypass Selective vagotomy (snipping the vagus nerve, effectively stopping hunger sensations). Mini...

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...

procedure for patients that have regained weight after gastric bypass Vagotomy—Cutting of the vagus nerve to reduce the feeling of hunger Syn, Nicholas...

Sympathectomy/Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy · Neurectomy Axotomy · Vagotomy Nerve biopsy Endocrine Hypophysectomy · Thyroidectomy · Parathyroidectomy ·...

structural changes Bariatric surgery (Weight loss surgery) Gastrectomy; Vagotomy Due to mucosal abnormality Coeliac disease Cows' milk intolerance Fructose...

Heidelberg (1997). ISBN 9783642592508. With A. C. Yankah and R. Hetzer "Vagotomy through mediastinoscopy for pulmonary osteoarthropathy. British Journal...

Secondary to various gastrointestinal diseases including cholecystectomy, vagotomy, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, radiation enteropathy, celiac disease...

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...

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...

level of hormones doesn't change. The administration of atropine, the vagotomy, blocks pancreatic polypeptide secretion after meals. The excitation of...

intestines and suppresses glucose production even under subdiaphragmatic vagotomy or gut vagal deafferentation. This interrupts the neural connection between...

test for achlorhydria in the stomach, to test adequacy of vagotomy ( post adequate vagotomy, gastric acid secretion is abolished) and to detect presence...

such as electrical vagal stimulation, muscarinic receptor blockade, and vagotomy. More problematic is the interpretation of the LF component, which was...

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...