[The first clinical experiences in Hungary with a new effective antibiotic (linezolid) effective against Gram-positive infections].

Introduction: The occurrence of gram-positive infections caused by multiresistant organisms has increased significantly in general, particularly among the surgical patients, and only a few effective antibiotics are available. A new and effective, synthetic antibiotic, against gram-positives is the oxazolidinon group, that electively inhibits bacterial protein synthesis in the early phase. Linezolid, the first member of this group to be used in clinical practice is the linezolid was studied.

[Acute pancreatitis with few symptoms and extensive necrosis].

The authors present a particular case of an acute pancreatitis. The disease developed in a young male patient following cholelithiasis and cholecystectomy. The inflammation affected the outer layers of the pancreas as a mantle and it caused widespread fat necrosis.

[Antibiotic prophylaxis for high risk patients undergoing cholecystectomy].

An open, randomised clinical trial was performed on 435 high risk patients who underwent open cholecystectomy between 1 = January 1993. and 31. December 1995.