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Sjögren syndrome

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The eponymous Sjögren syndrome is a keratoconjuntivitis sicca xerosftalmia[1] It is a chronic and progressive multisystem autoimmune disease typically managed by rheumatologists, [2] affecting 0.3 - 5 % of the general population [3]

Links

Inflammation in Sjögren's syndrome: Cause or consequence?

The epidemiology of Sjögren’s syndrome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278196/

Q335555 at Wikidata  Interwiki via Wikidata

  1. dictionary of medical eponyms Ediciones Roche Basle, Switzerland, p 495
  2. The Potential Role for Early Biomarker Testing as Part of a Modern, Multidisciplinary Approach to Sjögren's Syndrome Diagnosis
  3. Fox RI. Sjögren’s syndrome. Lancet. 2005;366: 321–31