Ganzkörperentzündung

English translation: whole-body inflammation/SIRS

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German term or phrase:Ganzkörperentzündung
English translation:whole-body inflammation/SIRS
Entered by: David Williams

06:47 Jul 16, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
German term or phrase: Ganzkörperentzündung
Context:

"Schwere Stürze und Zusammenstöße führen nicht nur zu Knochenbrüchen – oftmals sind Ganzkörperentzündungen und ein versagendes Immunsystem noch größere Gefahren."

I have discovered that systemische Ganzkörperentzündung = SIRS = Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, but is there another terminus technicus for Ganzkörperentzündung?
David Williams
Germany
Local time: 13:58
whole-body inflammation
Explanation:

GE:
... Dennoch gibt es heute immer noch Komplikationen, für die Kirklin und Westaby bereits in den 80er Jahren den Begriff des „Postperfusionssyndroms“ geprägt haben [19, 56,
123]. Mögliche Folgen dieses als „whole body inflammation syndrome“ beschriebenen Prozesses sind Schäden an verschiedenen Organsystemen:
http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2003/1130/pdf/MannVa...

e.g.:
One consequence of major injury, whether from surgery, burns or trauma, is whole-body inflammation. In most injured patients, this whole-body inflammation resolves promptly with appropriate clinical attention in an intensive care unit. However, in certain patients the inflammation persists, increases in intensity and leads to serious complications that are very difficult to treat effectively. At this time, there is no proven method to identify, on an individual basis, which patients will develop complications and which patients will not.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SQcJktA...

Inflammation is associated with a host of diseases like crohn's disease, colitis and arthritis, and many of them are life threatening. Said pathologist Ed Friedlander, M.D., "Probably your own death will be caused by your last inflammatory response ... Whole body inflammation, formerly a popular term used especially by surgeons for the patients who they could not save, is going out of fashion in favor of multiple organ failure."
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:g2n3-1i...

The presence of a generalized whole body inflammation or systemic ... was thought that the clinical expression of a whole body inflammation was the ...
http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/medicine/2001...

The clinical signs of incipient whole-body inflammation were given the name systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).4 In patients with severe trauma ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=w0X3EBt6b9YC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA...
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Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:58
Grading comment
Many thanks!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1inflammatory state affecting the whole body
MMUlr
3 +2whole-body inflammation
Marga Shaw
3SIRS
RegineMac


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
inflammatory state affecting the whole body


Explanation:
see http://knol.google.com/k/ipgdx-llc/systemic-inflammatory-res...

(it's a kind of description of SIRS)

MMUlr
Germany
Local time: 13:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 92

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ford Prefect
4 hrs
  -> thank you.
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58 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
whole-body inflammation


Explanation:

GE:
... Dennoch gibt es heute immer noch Komplikationen, für die Kirklin und Westaby bereits in den 80er Jahren den Begriff des „Postperfusionssyndroms“ geprägt haben [19, 56,
123]. Mögliche Folgen dieses als „whole body inflammation syndrome“ beschriebenen Prozesses sind Schäden an verschiedenen Organsystemen:
http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2003/1130/pdf/MannVa...

e.g.:
One consequence of major injury, whether from surgery, burns or trauma, is whole-body inflammation. In most injured patients, this whole-body inflammation resolves promptly with appropriate clinical attention in an intensive care unit. However, in certain patients the inflammation persists, increases in intensity and leads to serious complications that are very difficult to treat effectively. At this time, there is no proven method to identify, on an individual basis, which patients will develop complications and which patients will not.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SQcJktA...

Inflammation is associated with a host of diseases like crohn's disease, colitis and arthritis, and many of them are life threatening. Said pathologist Ed Friedlander, M.D., "Probably your own death will be caused by your last inflammatory response ... Whole body inflammation, formerly a popular term used especially by surgeons for the patients who they could not save, is going out of fashion in favor of multiple organ failure."
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:g2n3-1i...

The presence of a generalized whole body inflammation or systemic ... was thought that the clinical expression of a whole body inflammation was the ...
http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/medicine/2001...

The clinical signs of incipient whole-body inflammation were given the name systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).4 In patients with severe trauma ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=w0X3EBt6b9YC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA...

Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:58
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 86
Grading comment
Many thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lirka
1 hr
  -> Thank you, lirka!

agree  Cetacea
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
SIRS


Explanation:
I'd go with your suggestion, see below:

WHOLE BODY INFLAMMATION, formerly a popular term used especially by surgeons for the patients who they could not save, is going out of fashion in favor of MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE or SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME ("SIRS") or UNCONTROLLED IMMUNE RESPONSE (Am. Heart. J. 156: 1065, 2008) or STRESSED-HOST SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION (Surg. Clin. N.A. 89: 311, 2009).

RegineMac
United States
Local time: 04:58
Native speaker of: German
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