The Rumpel–Leede sign is a historical exam for Dengue fever and scurvy. It presents as a distal shower of petechiae that occurs after the release of pressure from a tourniquet or sphygmomanometer.[1]: 824 [2]
The blood pressure cuff should be inflated to a pressure between the systolic and diastolic pressures and kept inflated for 5 minutes. A few minutes after releasing the tourniquet if there are more than twenty petechiae per square inch it is a clinical manifestation of scurvy. [3]
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edit- ^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.
- ^ Wang, Krystle; Lee, Jason (2 January 2014). "Rumpel–Leede Sign". New England Journal of Medicine. 370 (1): e1. doi:10.1056/NEJMicm1305270.
- ^ Dermatology. Jean Bolognia (Editor), Julie V. Schaffer (Editor), Lorenzo Cerroni (Editor). Elsevier, [Philadelphia?], 2018. Pg. 798
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