| Autor: |
Loukas G, Chatzis, Vasiliki, Koulouri, Chiara, Baldini, Vasilis C, Pezoulas, Paraskevi V, Voulgari, Fotini N, Skopouli, Dimitrios I, Fotiadis, Athanasios G, Tzioufas, Andreas V, Goules |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology. |
| ISSN: |
1593-098X |
| DOI: |
10.55563/clinexprheumatol/gqvyus |
| Popis: |
Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterised by oral and eye dryness. A minority of patients can present without dryness but studies on their clinico-laboratory manifestations are scarce. Our purpose was to describe the clinical phenotype of pSS patients lacking sicca symptoms.From a total of 1738 consecutive pSS patients fulfilling the 2016 ACR-EULAR criteria, those who presented without sicca symptoms were identified (non-dryness group). Their medical data was collected and compared with 2 control groups: a) the remaining unmatched sicca pSS patients with both oral and eye dryness (unmatched dryness group) and b) matched sicca pSS patients according to age, sex, and disease duration, in 1:2 ratio (matched dryness group).Thirty-eight (2.19%) patients lacked sicca manifestations presenting mainly with arthralgias (47%), parotid enlargement (24%), Raynaud's phenomenon (11%) and persistent lymphadenopathy (11%) that led them to be evaluated for pSS. Non-dryness pSS patients were younger than the unmatched sicca controls, displaying a higher frequency of anti-Ro/SSA antibodies (100% vs. 79.7%, p0.001), ANA positivity (100% vs. 90.4%, p0.001), neutropenia (20.8% vs. 7.5%, p=0.04) and thrombocytopenia (13.8% vs. 4.2%, p=0.04). They also had lower frequency of positive ocular tests compared to both unmatched and matched dryness patients. No differences were found between non-dryness pSS patients and both control groups regarding focus score or any other extraglandular manifestation.pSS patients without sicca complaints constitute a distinct phenotype involving younger patients, sharing common immunopathologic mechanisms with typical sicca patients. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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