Louvel's sign

Louvel's sign is a clinical sign found in patients with deep vein thrombosis. The sign is defined as pain in the distribution of the affected vein which occurs during coughing or sneezing (Valsalva maneuver), and which disppears when the vein is compressed proximally.^[1]

References

^ Assessment of the Elderly Patient: The Peripheral Vascular Examination: Venous Examinations at Medscape.

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

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, Pratt's sign, Rose's sign) · Trendelenburg test · superior vena cava syndrome (Pemberton's sign)

M: HRT

anat/phys/devp

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (C1A/1B/1C/1D), blte

M: VAS

anat(a:h/u/t/a/l,v:h/u/t/a/l)/phys/devp/cell/prot

noco/syva/cong/lyvd/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug(C2s+n/3/4/5/7/8/9)