Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)
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A Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) is an inflammation that affects a whole body.
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- See: SARD, Infectious Disease (Medical Specialty).
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/systemic_inflammatory_response_syndrome Retrieved:2020-3-25.
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is an inflammatory state affecting the whole body . It is the body's response to an infectious or noninfectious insult. Although the definition of SIRS refers to it as an "inflammatory" response, it actually has pro- and anti-inflammatory components.