[Atropine resistance and its significance in the selection of the method of surgical treatment of duodenal ulcer].

Medical vagotomy with atropine allows two types of patients with duodenal ulcer to be distinguished--atropine-resistant and atropine-sensitive. A complicated course of the disease, high values of nocturnal gastric secretion before the operation, and positive Hollander's insulin test after vagotomy are encountered most frequently in atropine-resistant patients. The values of gastrin are significantly higher in these patients than in atropine sensitive patients.

[Complaints concerning the digestive organs in virtually healthy persons].

The specially developed questionnaires were completed by interrogating 126 practically healthy people. It was established that when studying the long-term results of operations on the stomach one should not restrict himself by general questions about the patient's health but it is necessary to use a special questionnaire. After vagotomy about 3-6% of such patients have pronounced disorders of digestive organs which could hardly be associated with the operation itself.