Upper abdominal pain and vomiting are the common symptoms of a large gastric ulcer in the stomach. These ulcers are quite often healed by medication. In the case of massive bleeding of ulcers, transfusion of blood and sometimes surgery is required. Partial gastrectomy, also known as gastric surgery is done for ulcers.
The major causes of duodenal ulcers are bleeding or sometimes gastric outlet obstruction that leads to persistent vomiting. Surgery for this ailment will be in the form of gastrojejunostomy and truncal vagotomy.
In India, cancer of the stomach is quite common. The symptoms that are common to see in these cases include pain in abdomen, weight loss and vomiting. Sometimes, there are no symptoms at all and in that case an upper GI endoscopy is used for diagnosis. For the treatment of cancer of the stomach, surgery in the form of partial, total gastrectomy is required or a bypass followed by chemotherapy.
Acid injury to the stomach due to accidental or suicidal ingestion of bathroom acid. This causes severe damage to the stomach that requires emergency or elective surgery on the stomach like bypass gastric surgery and gastric sleeve surgery.
Severe heartburn due to hiatus hernia will at times require surgical treatment. This surgery is performed by form of a fundoplication in which a new valve is reconstructed at the junction between the food pipe and stomach.