[Value of continuous electrocardiographic monitoring of patients with syncope. Results of a prospective study].

Aim: Syncope, a temporary loss of conscience, is a frequent cause for consulting the family doctor or more often being brought to the hospital emergency ward. In order to evaluate the importance of the continuous recording of ECG in the formulation of the diagnosis, the relevant data were extrapolated from more general data in the prospective study.

Material: A total of 194 patients were enrolled whose diagnosis was divided into three distinct stages.

[Syncope in a general population: etiologic diagnosis and follow-up. Results of a prospective study].

Objective: Syncope is a common clinical problem in a general population. A prospective study was performed, in our hospital, to evaluate the incidence of the disease and to standardize the diagnostic and clinical management.

Methods: 194 patients aged 10-92 years were recruited during one year.

The effects of sodium depletion on ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring in the elderly.

Objective: Old age is associated with impairment of the normal homeostatic response to cardiovascular stress. The purpose of our study was to determine whether a physiologic stress, such as sodium depletion, produces different, age-dependent effects on the blood pressure and heart rate profile in old and young subjects.

Design: Blood pressure and the heart rate were studied in 11 young (age 28.

Nitrendipine once daily compared with nicardipine in the treatment of mild to moderate hypertension.

Twenty-four patients with mild to moderate hypertension were randomly assigned to 42 days of treatment with 20 mg of nitrendipine once daily or 20 mg of nicardipine thrice daily. In the nitrendipine-treated and nicardipine-treated patients, respectively, mean resting blood pressure decreased from 163 +/- 12 and 161 +/- 11 mmHg at baseline to 152 +/- 12 and 146 +/- 9 mmHg at six weeks (P less than 0.001).

[Glycoprotein changes in acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].

The changes of 11 plasma glycoproteins have been recorded during the first month in 22 patients with acute myocardial infarction; the quantitations have been performed by radial immunodiffusion on plates. The IgM proteins are significantly augmented and, with lesser degree, the alpha1 acid glycoprotein, the alpha1 antitrypsin and the haptoglobin are significantly augmented too. The peak is noted on the tenth day (the alpha1 acid glycoprotein only has its peak in twentieth day).