When I was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer, I didn't feel any odd lumps or nodules in my neck, but I was suffering from muscle weakness, tiredness and getting constant colds. After a particularly nasty bug I noticed that my lymph nodes never seemed to go down in size.
SIRS is nonspecific and can be caused by ischemia, inflammation, trauma, infection, or several insults combined. Thus, SIRS is not always related to infection. Venn diagram showing overlap of infection, bacteremia, sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and multiorgan dysfunction.
What causes LBD? LBD is a result of protein deposits known as Lewy Bodies, sometimes called plaques, in the nerve cells of the brain. There are also plaques in the cells of patients with Alzheimerâs, but LBD patients do not have tangles in the nerve cells like Alzheimerâs patients do.