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De Musset's sign

The heart, lungs and pleura

Published in Kevin G Burnand, John Black, Steven A Corbett, William EG Thomas, Norman L Browse, Browse’s Introduction to the Symptoms & Signs of Surgical Disease, 2014

Kevin G Burnand, John Black, Steven A Corbett, William EG Thomas, Norman L Browse

A number of specific signs can be attributed to the low diastolic blood pressure and wide pulse pressure found in aortic regurgitation: Water hammer pulse – accentuation of the radial pulse when lifting the arm.Quincke’s sign – capillary pulsation in the nail beds.De Musset’s sign – head nodding in time with the heart beat.Pulsatile liver – more often associated with tricuspid incompetence.

Analyzing the association between aortic regurgitation and atherosclerosis: is pulse pressure a cause of atherosclerosis?

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Published in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2018

Seijiro Shimada, Masayosi Matsuura, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Junkichi Hama

Assuming that PP is a risk factor of ASCVD, atherosclerosis should be progressive in diseases that are accompanied by increases in PP. Corrigan’s pulse, de Musset’s sign, Duroziez’s sign, Hill’s sign, Müller’s sign, Quincke’s sign, and Traube’s sign are findings observed in patients with aortic regurgitation (AR), which is inseparable from increased PP. Thus, increase in PP is a characteristic of AR. Consequently, if PP is a risk factor for ASCVD, then atherosclerosis should be progressive in AR. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between AR and atherosclerosis. Therefore, we performed a cross-sectional study of the relationship between AR and atherosclerosis using carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and pulse wave velocity (PWV), which are regarded as excellent predictors of ASCVD (12–15).

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