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.
Causes of ascites due to liver problems include: 1  Cirrhosis describes a form of liver failure in which liver tissue that is damaged is replaced by scar tissue. 2  Acute liver failure can result in ascites.  Budd-Chiari syndrome is caused by the blockage of the hepatic veins (those that drain the liver).