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BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 791-807Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2006.05.003
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Sjogren's; treatment; diagnosis; sialosis; DEMS; criteria; TNF; infliximab; rituximab; hydroxychloroquine
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Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune exocrinopathy that predominantly affects salivary and lachrymal glands, leading to dry eyes and mouth. The most common clinical problems faced by the rheumatologist are those of dry eyes and mouth, parotid swelling, fatigue and extraglandular manifestations. The first stage in management is to make an accurate diagnosis based on the American/European consensus criteria. The most frequent differential diagnoses are dry eyes and mouth symptoms, a variant of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, and sialosis, which causes a non-inflammatory enlargement of the parotid glands. The mainstay of treatment for the sicca symptoms is local therapy, and that for the milder systemic symptoms is hydroxychloroquine. Steroids and immunosuppressive drugs are reserved for more severe extraglandular disease. In spite of intensive research in other systemic treatments including biologic therapies, there is limited evidence to support their use in routine clinical practice.
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