Changing Surgical Methods In Peptic Ulcer Perforation

The place of surgical treatment, except for the treatment of complications, in peptic ulcer gradually decreases. Helicobacter pylori eradication with proton pump inhibitors (PPI) and H2 receptors that have been used frequently recently have played important role in this decrease. One of the most common complications of peptic ulcer, though protective medicines, is still perforations and they are very common among surgical emergencies. The files of 311 patients with peptic ulcer perforation accepted to the clinic between 2000-2010 were examined retrospectively. The patients applied to our clinic with peptic ulcer perforation were examined in terms of age, sex, seasonal relation, and applied surgical technique. 206 of the patients were male with 52.8 mean age and 105 of them were female with 65.2 mean age. 266 of the patients were fixed with primary suture, 35 of them had bilateral truncal vagotomy+pyloroplasty and 10 were fixed laparoscopically. Average hospitalization time was 7 days. While wound infection developed in 25 of the patients, evisceration was developed in 8 patients, 9 patients were exetus. Over the last ten years there has been a change from definitive attempts to primary fixation and from laparotomy to laparoscopic methods for treatment of peptic ulcer perforations our clinic.