Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm and Leriche syndrome after abdominal aorta reconstruction

The authors present a preliminary report concerning systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) occurrence in patients after operations in the abdominal segment of the aorta. Considering the small amount of analysed patients, the authors only indicate that aneurysm of the abdominal aorta can be a cause of SIRS formation. The significance of SIRS occurrence in connection with the type of implanted prosthesis and operation time was not observed. More than the twice blood loss, in comparison with the entire analysed group, seems to be a pro developmental factor for SIRS. The authors observed SIRS in a group of patients with Leriche Syndrome and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). They did not notice any correlation between operating time or type of implanted prosthesis (straight vs. bifurcated) and SIRS. They noticed that more than twice the blood loss in the remaining patients was one of the reasons for SIRS. SIRS occurred only in patients with AAA.