Faget sign | |
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Differential diagnosis | Yellow fever,Typhoid fever, Brain abscess, Tularaemia, Brucellosis, COVID 19 Omicron |
In medicine, the Faget sign—sometimes called sphygmothermic dissociation—is the unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia (slow pulse). (Fever is usually accompanied by tachycardia (rapid pulse), an association known by the eponym " Liebermeister's rule".) The Faget sign is named after Louisiana physician Jean Charles Faget, who studied yellow fever in Louisiana. [1] [2]
Faget sign is often seen in:
Of note, the Faget sign in bacterial infections is consistently associated with bacteria that have an intracellular life cycle.
Faget sign | |
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Differential diagnosis | Yellow fever,Typhoid fever, Brain abscess, Tularaemia, Brucellosis, COVID 19 Omicron |
In medicine, the Faget sign—sometimes called sphygmothermic dissociation—is the unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia (slow pulse). (Fever is usually accompanied by tachycardia (rapid pulse), an association known by the eponym " Liebermeister's rule".) The Faget sign is named after Louisiana physician Jean Charles Faget, who studied yellow fever in Louisiana. [1] [2]
Faget sign is often seen in:
Of note, the Faget sign in bacterial infections is consistently associated with bacteria that have an intracellular life cycle.