[Cardiac arrhythmias in active elderly persons--age dependence of heart rate and arrhythmias].

Arrhythmias and heart rate of 82 active elderly persons (mean age 79.5 yrs) were registered by 24-hour electrocardiographic recording and compared with the results of 100 asymptomatic subjects (age 34.8 yrs).

[Treatment of hypotensive circulatory dysregulation with a combination of dihydroergotamine and etilefrine (author's transl)].

In 40 hypotensive patients with sympathicotonic orthostatic dysregulation and presenting the relevant subjective symptoms, a dosage of 3 times daily 2 mg dihydroergotamine or 20 mg etilefrine or the fixed combination of both drugs--Dihydergot plus--was compared inter-individually and by the double blind method. Under Dihydergot plus the strongest increase in resting blood pressure was achieved from 103/60 to 124/75 mm Hg. This drug also proved most effective in terms of the orthostatic test parameters, i.