Faget sign – Relative bradycardia
Faget sign is often seen in:
- Yellow fever
- Typhoid fever
- Brain abscess
- Tularaemia
- Brucellosis
- Colorado tick fever
- Some pneumonias – Legionella pneumonia and Mycoplasma pneumonia
- Drug fever (e.g. beta-blockers, known as the Beta-Faget sign)
Faget sign – Relative bradycardia
- Fever is usually accompanied by tachycardia – called “Liebermeister’s rule“
- Faget sign is named after Louisiana physician Jean Charles Faget
- Fever associated with relative bradycardia – temperature pulse dissociation – Relatively pulse do not increase [ Relative bradycardia] with rise in high temperature
