OBJECTIVE This study intended to determine whether the systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria can predict hospital mortality in a Brazilian cohort of critically ill patients. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study at a private tertiary hospital in São Paulo (SP), Brazil. We extracted information from the adult intensive care unit database (Sistema EpimedTM). We compared t...

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 ...

Sweet syndrome is one of the cutaneous processes more frequently associated to systemic diseases. Its association to the systemic inflammatory response syndrome has rarely been described. We report a case of chronic and relapsing Sweet syndrome associated to a chronic and idiopathic systemic inflammatory response syndrome that lasted seven years and proved fatal to the patient. Among the rare c...

conclusions termination of pregnancy was performed as it would save the patient’s life in either deteriorated acute severe pancreatitis or hellp. case presentation a 17-year-old female with 27 weeks of gestation presented mild acute pancreatitis. based on the criteria of persistent systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) she subsequently developed severe pancreatitis. bilirubin 2.2 mg/dl...