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author = "Moutsopoulos, H M"

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HLA DR alloantigens in different subsets of patients with Sjögren's syndrome and in family members.

Description : Patients with Sjögren's syndrome alone (Ss), Sjögren's syndrome with rheumatoid arthritis (Ss-RA), and Sjögren's syndrome with Raynaud's phenomenon (Ss-RP) were typed for the HLA DR and MT antigens. Ss-RA patients had higher frequencies of HLA DR4 than did Ss patients. HLA-DR4 was also increased in ...
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The European Community Study Group on diagnostic criteria for Sjögren's syndrome. Sensitivity and specificity of tests for ocular and oral involvement in Sjögren's syndrome.

Description : AIM--To establish a definitive set of diagnostic criteria in a multicentre European study a selected number of oral and ocular tests were performed on a large number of patients with Sjögrens Syndrome (SS) and controls. The diagnostic accuracy of each test for patients with primary and secondary SS ...
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Letter: Sjögren's syndrome with light chain myeloma.

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Demonstration and identification of monoclonal proteins in the urine of patients with Sjögren's syndrome.

Description : Fresh sera and concentrated urine from 17 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) were fractionated by high-resolution agarose electrophoresis to investigate the presence of monoclonal immunoglobulins or their components. Homogeneous protein bands were found in the gamma-globulin region in 47%...
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Oesophageal dysfunction in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome.

Description : Oesophageal motility was studied in 22 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and 20 normal volunteers. Oesophageal dysfunction was detected in eight of the 22 patients (36.4%) with primary Sjögren's syndrome. No abnormalities were detected in the normal subjects. Individual analysis of the oesoph...
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Cyclosporin A (CyA) in primary Sjögren's syndrome: a double blind study.

Description : The efficacy and toxicity of cyclosporin A (CyA) were studied in a blind fashion in 20 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). The dose of CyA or placebo was 5 mg/kg of body weight daily. Among the 20 patients, 10 received CyA and 10 placebo. The two groups were matched for age, sex, and dis...
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Effect of cyclosporin A (CyA) on the immunopathological lesion of the labial minor salivary glands from patients with Sjögren's syndrome.

Description : Labial minor salivary gland biopsy specimens from 14 patients with Sjögren's syndrome treated either with cyclosporin A (CyA) or placebo (5 mg/kg body weight day for six months) were studied to determine T lymphocyte subsets and HLA-DR antigen expression using the avidin-biotin-peroxidase technique....
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Outcome of pregnancy in patients with autoimmune rheumatic disease before the disease onset.

Description : The outcomes of 419 pregnancies of 154 unselected patients with various auto-immune diseases, including 390 pregnancies before the disease onset, were studied retrospectively. The patients comprised 40 with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 72 with rheumatoid arthritis, 21 with primary Sjögren's s...
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