Clinical significance of systemic inflammatory response syndrome following pneumonia complicated by actue congestive heart failure in infants
Xu Manchun
Zhu Huiying
Abstract：Objective To employ the new concept of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) to evaluate the course and outcome of illness in pneumonia complicated by acute congestive heart failure in infants.Methods According to the criteria of SIRS by Hayden, thirty-two infants with pneumonia complicated by acute congestive heart failure were studied. Results Twenty seven cases (27/32) were diagnosed as SIRS. The duration of heart failure was significantly longer in patients with SIRS for≥3 days than that of SRIS sustained for ≤2 days. The former had a outcome. The risk of factors of SIRS for ≥3 days included other complications and severity of the illness. The duration of SIRS was not related to the age, sex and the number of SIRS criteria, but was correlated with heart failure.Conclusion The duration of SIRS may be used to evaluate the infants with pneumonia complicated by acute congestive heart failure. Persistent SIRS may hamper the amelioration of heart failure and early intervention should be taken in such cases.
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Publication Date：2001-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 31-33 )