A rare cause of cardiomyopathy: the systemic inflammation response syndrome (SIRS)
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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
The concept of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) to describe the complex pathophysiologic response to an insult such as infection, trauma, burns, pancreatitis, or a variety of other injuries came from a 1991 consensus conference charged with the task of developing an easy-to-apply set of clinical parameters to aid in the early identification of potential candidates to enter into ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.86.4.362