Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of salivary and lacrimal glands, resulting in sicca symptoms. Additionally, SS presents with ...

Objective: To use shear wave elastography (SWE) in the evaluation of salivary glands in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) who present with sicca symptoms. Materials and Methods: This was a ...

Neglected sicca symptoms were retrospectively unearthed after a positive Schirmer’s test. A diagnosis of Sjögren’s disease was considered after initial auto-immune screening. Subsequent definitive ...

We report patients with inflammatory arthritis and sicca syndrome secondary to ICIs. Methods We report patients evaluated in the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology clinics from 2012 to 2016 identified as ...

and show fewer sicca symptoms. "Our findings improve our understanding of risk factors associated with abnormal small bowel transit in SSc patients and shed light on the lived experience of ...

Sjögren’s is never just sicca. Thorough evaluations consistently ... About half of patients can point to symptoms starting in childhood or early adulthood. Men are more likely to experience ...

Dry eye syndrome, also called keratitis sicca, keratoconjunctivitis sicca ... You may experience these symptoms all the time or intermittently. They tend to worsen after a long day, and they are ...

Sjögren’s syndrome is typically characterised by the presence of sicca symptoms, caused by a dysfunction in the lacrimal and salivary glands. Extraglandular manifestations are also present in many ...

He continued on 200 mg/day of hydroxychloroquine, along with tear drops until now with remission. Sicca symptoms may be a sequel of COVID‐19 infection, and physicians should be aware of this sequel.

Dry eye disease, also called keratoconjunctivitis sicca, affects millions of people ... participants experienced an overall improvement in symptoms, including improvement in how thick their ...