[Laparoscopic pseudocysto-jejunostomy].

Laparoscopic surgery of the pancreas, acquisition of the recent years, finds application in the surgical management of pancreatic pseudocysts (PP). Among internal drainage procedures that can be performed through laparoscopic approach, the pseudocysto-jejunostomy technique (PJS) can be performed using only the standard laparoscopic instrument set. We submit the technique we used in performing a PJS on three patients admitted in our clinic.

[Pancreatic pseudocyst--diagnosis, evolution, surgical treatment].

Background: The pancreatic pseudocyst (PP) represents one of the most common complications of acute and chronic pancreatitis, patients with this severe pathology often undergoing surgical treatment.

Patients And Method: This paper evaluates 133 cases that underwent surgical procedures for PP in the 3rd Surgical Clinic Cluj-Napoca during January 1993-April 2003, from a diagnostic and therapeutic point of view, emphasizing the modern imagistic methods for diagnosis and the modern surgical approach to PP.

Results: In 105 cases (79%) an internal drainage procedure was performed (including three cases that underwent laparoscopic drainage procedures and one case undergoing a laparoscopy assisted drainage procedure, all four cases with favorable postoperative outcome), external drainage procedures were performed in 25 cases (19%) and in three cases (2%) a pancreatic resection was performed.

Interpretive criteria, quality control guidelines, and drug stability studies for susceptibility testing of cefotaxime, cefoxitin, ceftazidime, and cefuroxime against Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Cefotaxime, cefoxitin, ceftazidime, and cefuroxime were tested in a multicenter study to establish susceptibility testing criteria and quality control guidelines for Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Interpretive criteria were established by using triplicate testing of at least 100 gonococcal strains having various susceptibility patterns to currently utilized drug regimens. Only a susceptible category was proposed for cefotaxime and ceftazidime (greater than or equal to 31 mm and less than or equal to 0.

Standardization of disk diffusion and agar dilution susceptibility tests for Neisseria gonorrhoeae: interpretive criteria and quality control guidelines for ceftriaxone, penicillin, spectinomycin, and tetracycline.

A six-laboratory study developed a standardized method for determining the susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains to penicillin, tetracycline, spectinomycin, and ceftriaxone. Three quality control organisms were also selected, and quality assurance guidelines were initially generated for the disk diffusion and agar dilution methods. The medium recommended for gonococcal susceptibility testing was GC agar with a defined "XV-like" supplement.

Quality control parameters and interpretive criteria for in vitro susceptibility tests with the macrolide azithromycin. Collaborative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Group.

Quality control parameters for broth microdilution and disk diffusion susceptibility tests were defined and the interpretive criteria for disk diffusion tests reviewed. For interpretation of tests with 15 micrograms azithromycin disks, the following criteria are recommended: greater than or equal to 19 mm for the susceptible category (MIC less than or equal to 2.0 micrograms/ml) and less than or equal to 15 mm for the resistant category (MIC greater than or equal to 8.