Cytokine profiles and clinical characteristics in primary Sjögren´s syndrome patient groups

Orbital Myositis and Primary Sjögren Syndrome.

Neurological involvement in Primary Sjögren Syndrome.

OBJECTIVES To perform an observational retrospective cross-sectional case-control study to evaluate prevalence, clinical patterns and outcomes of neurological involvement in a cohort of Primary Sjögren Syndrome (pSS) patients followed up in a single center. MATERIAL AND METHODS From a total of 93 pSS patients, diagnosed according to the 2002 criteria proposed by the American-European Consensu...

Primary Sjögren Syndrome in Han Chinese

The epidemiological characteristics of Sjögren syndrome (SS) are significantly varied in different countries. We conducted the present study to survey the epidemiological characteristics of primary SS in China. We recruited 483 primary SS patients from 16 Chinese medical centers nationwide from January 2009 to November 2011 and assessed salivary and lacrimal gland dysfunction, organ involvement...

Unusual cancer in primary Sjögren syndrome.

Sjögren syndrome (SS) is the second most common autoimmune disease, affecting mainly middle-aged women. The disease might occur alone (primary SS) or in association with other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (secondary SS). The important symptoms of SS, dry mouth (xerostomia) and dry eyes (keratoconjunctivitis sicca), result from lymphocytic infiltration and destruction of the ...

Kidney biopsy findings in primary Sjögren syndrome.

BACKGROUND Renal involvement is rare in primary Sjögren syndrome (PSS). In this study, we examined renal biopsy findings in patients with PSS and correlated them with their clinical and renal findings. METHODS Twenty-five patients with PSS who underwent renal biopsies from two renal units in Scotland between 1978 and 2013 were identified from renal biopsy database. We examined the renal morph...