Word: weinbergs
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...pyloroplasty," or widening the gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or "sphincter" (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched, then the slit is closed at right angles. Such operations (there are several variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that it does not empty fast enough; opening its outlet comes close to restoring nature's timing. This approach appeals to such surgeons...
...operations or combinations of them at St. Clare's Hospital, and reached a surprising conclusion: the best operation for most patients is "antrectomy" -removal of 35% to 40% of the stomach and hooking the remainder to the duodenum. Dr. Madden dismissed vagotomy alone as unsatisfactory, and gave the Weinberg operation a low rating because too often it fails to effect a cure...
Proponents of the Weinberg technique retort that Dr. Weinberg has had a death rate of only one-half of 1% among 1,129 patients since 1947. Thus, they say, even if the cure rate for a first operation is a few percentage points lower than w:th more drastic surgery, this is more than compensated for by the lower death rate...
Something Better. If the surgeons' arguments are not ended, neither are their ingenious efforts to find better ulcer treatments. Dr. Weinberg is still improving his own technique; he now uses only a single row of stitches to close the slit in the pylorus, reducing the risk of a later shutdown. Other surgeons are combining the Weinberg method with the tying-off of blood vessels, especially for bleeding ulcers. Minnesota's Surgeon Owen H. Wangensteen is trying to make fellow surgeons abandon the knife for nearly all ulcer patients and freeze the stomach instead, a procedure that is hotly...
...ever made a more stirring address to businessmen," said Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg, "and in 30 years I've heard a lot of them...