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Bruce E. Stabile, MD; Edward Passaro, Jr, MD; I. Michael Samloff, MD; John H. Walsh, MD

Arch Surg. 1978;113(10):1136-1141.

Abstract
• Basal and betazole-stimulated serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in 40 patients with recurrent ulcer and in 73 symptomatic patients without recurrence. Basal serum gastrin level and basal and betazolestimulated acid outputs were also determined. For each of these tests, the difference between the mean values for ulcer and nonulcer patients was significant after vagotomy combined with resection (P <.01). The same was true after subtotal gastrectomy (P <.01) with the exception of the basal serum gastrin level (P >.05). After vagotomy and drainage, however, only the mean betazole-stimulated PG I response was different between ulcer and nonulcer patients (P <.05). In the identification of ulcer recurrence, the radioimmunoassay for serum PG I levels is at least as useful as acid secretory tests and is superior to the basal serum gastrin level.

(Arch Surg 113:1136-1141, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Surgical Service (Drs Stabile and Passaro), and the Division of Gastroenterology (Dr Walsh), Veterans Administration Wadsworth Hospital Center, and the Division of Gastroenterology (Dr Samloff), Harbor General Hospital, and the UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 30, 1978.

Read before the Southern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Santa Barbara, Calif, Jan 20-22, 1978.

Reprint requests to Surgical Service (691/112K3), Veterans Administration Wadsworth Hospital Center, Wilshire and Sawtelle Boulevards, Los Angeles, CA 90073 (Dr Stabile).

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