Faget Sign: Hot Bod + Slow Heart

Faget Sign: Relative bradycardia in association with fever (Temperature-pulse dissociation). Originally described by Jean-Charles Faget in patients with yellow fever (1859). “Discordance entre la courbe du pouls et celle de la temperature dans la fièvre jaune.” Subsequently observed in multiple febrile illnesses especially intracellular bacterial infections.

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