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The clinical phenotype of isolated ocular or oral dryness in Sjögren's disease.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Dec 2024
Chatzis Loukas G, Goules Andreas V, Baldini Chiara, Pezoulas Vasilis C, Venetsanopoulou Aliki I, Voulgari Paraskevi V, Fotiadis Dimitrios I, Skopouli Fotini N, Moutsopoulos Haralampos M, Tzioufas Athanasios G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To assess if isolated mouth or eye dryness constitutes distinct clinical phenotypes in Sjögren's disease (SjD). METHODS: We analysed 1765 patients meeting the 2016 ACR-EULAR SjD criteria, followed up at four centres in Greece and Italy (Universities of Pisa, Italy, and Athens, Harokopion, and Ioannina, Greece). Patients with isolated mouth or eye dryness were identified and matched 1:2 with those...
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