Nicoladoni sign

In medicine, the Nicoladoni sign, also Branham sign and Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign, is the slowing of the heart rate in response to (manual) compression of an arteriovenous fistula.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It is named after Carl Nicoladoni.

References

↑ Branham's sign. The Free Dictionary. URL: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Branham's+sign. Accessed on: September 28, 2008.
↑ synd/2995 at Who Named It?
↑ Velez-Roa S, Neubauer J, Wissing M, et al. (June 2004). "Acute arterio-venous fistula occlusion decreases sympathetic activity and improves baroreflex control in kidney transplanted patients". Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 19 (6): 1606–12. doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh124. PMID 15034165.

Eponymous medical signs for circulatory system

Heart disease

Heart murmur	Systolic heart murmur: benign paediatric heart murmur (Still's murmur) Diastolic heart murmur: pulmonic regurgitation (Graham Steell murmur) aortic insufficiency (Austin Flint murmur) carey coombs murmur mitral regurgitation (Presystolic murmur)

Aortic insufficiency	Watson's water hammer pulse/Corrigan pulse De Musset's sign Duroziez's sign Müller's sign Quincke's sign Austin Flint murmur Mayne's sign

Other endocardium	endocarditis: Roth's spot Janeway lesion/Osler's node Bracht-Wachter bodies

Pericardium	cardiac tamponade/pericardial effusion: Beck's triad Ewart's sign

Other	rheumatic fever: Anitschkow cell Aschoff body EKG (Osborn wave) angina pectoris (Levine's sign) Gallavardin phenomenon

Vascular disease

Arterial	aortic aneurysm (Cardarelli's sign, Oliver's sign) pulmonary embolism (McConnell's sign) radial artery sufficiency (Allen's test) pseudohypertension (Osler's sign) thrombus (Lines of Zahn) Adson's sign arteriovenous fistula (Nicoladoni sign)

Venous	Friedreich's sign Caput medusae Kussmaul's sign DVT Bancroft's sign Homans sign Lisker's sign Louvel's sign Lowenberg's sign Peabody's sign Pratt's sign Rose's sign Trendelenburg test superior vena cava syndrome (Pemberton's sign)

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