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.
Paraneoplastic autonomic neuropathy; Hereditary causes: eg, Anderson-Fabry disease, Tangier disease, multiple endocrine neoplasia (type 2b). Idiopathic causes: chronic idiopathic anhidrosis. Epidemiology. In general, these can occur in men and women at any age, but the epidemiology will depend on the particular cause. Some causes are very rare. However, one of the most common causes of autonomic neuropathy is likely to be diabetes mellitus. Progressive autonomic failure usually becomes apparent in the sixth decade of life. Typically it manifests with genitourinary symptoms and orthostatic hypotension but without somatic symptoms.