Sjögren's Syndrome News

• Cationic Emulsion of Cyclosporine Safe, Effective for Dry Eye Disease In patients with dry eye disease (DED), a cyclosporine A cationic emulsion (CsA CE) is well tolerated and effective, a pooled analysis of two clinical trials suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• Sialendoscopy Enhances Salivary Flow in Sjogren's Syndrome Sialendoscopy with irrigation of the major salivary glands can enhance salivary flow and reduce xerostomia in patients with Sjogren's syndrome, according to a randomized trial.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Another AE Identified With Checkpoint Inhibitors Add connective tissue diseases, such as Sjogren's syndrome, to the list of immune-related adverse events that can develop during cancer treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2017
• Cancer, Autoimmune Disorders Linked to Postsurgery GBS Malignancies and pre-existing autoimmune disorders were predictors of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome after a surgery or procedure in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2016
• New Guidance on Managing Sjogren's Rheumatologic Problems Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation experts developed new guidelines on rheumatologic manifestations of the disease including fatigue, inflammatory musculoskeletal pain, and use of biologicals.
  Medscape Medical News, August 2016
• Autoimmune Diseases Common in Patients With Vitiligo Patients with vitiligo commonly have other autoimmune diseases, according to a cross-sectional study.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2015
• Pediatric Cancer Survivors at High Risk for Autoimmune Disease A population-based study has found that patients who survive cancer as children have an increased risk of developing autoimmune disease later in life.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2015
• New Name, Diagnostic Criteria for Neuromyelitis Optica New diagnostic criteria have been introduced for neuromyelitis optica, which is now to be known as neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).
  Medscape Medical News, July 2015
• Varying Tear Osmolarity Readings May Be Hard to Interpret Measurements of tear osmolarity taken with the TearLab Osmolarity System vary highly in individuals with and without dry eye, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2015
• Sjogren's: Hydroxychloroquine No Better Than Placebo The commonly prescribed agent did not relieve symptoms of dryness, fatigue, or pain in a randomized controlled trial, but efficacy criteria may have been too tough, investigators say.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2014
• EULARIncreased Cardiovascular Risk in Sjögren's Syndrome A population-based study suggests that heart attack and stroke should be considered direct complications of Sjögren's syndrome, not comorbidities.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2014
• Ultrasound Improves Sjogren's Syndrome Classification Salivary gland ultrasonography enhances ACR classification of patients with Sjogren's syndrome and in the future should be included in evaluations, according to French investigators.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2014
• Support for Autoimmune-Epilepsy Link A new population-based study provides more evidence of a significantly increased risk for epilepsy among patients with an autoimmune disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2014
• Rituximab Disappoints in Sjogren Syndrome
  Medscape Medical News, February 2014
• Autoantibodies May Precede Sjogren's Symptoms by Years Patients who develop Sjogren's syndrome may have autoantibodies characteristic of the disease in their blood years before any symptoms present, Swedish researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2013
• Rituximab in Primary Sjogren's Syndrome A single course of rituximab affords only modest clinical benefit to patients with primary Sj�gren's syndrome, according to a small study from the Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2013
• Sjogren's Screened by Autoimmune Antibody Tests Ophthalmologists might be better able to identify those who are most at risk of having Sjogren's syndrome by including tests for 2 autoimmune antibodies when testing patients with dry eye.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2012
• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: 14 Clinical Uses Outlined The American College of Rheumatology Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Committee has recommended 14 reasonable uses for MSUS in clinical rheumatology practice.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2012
• Lifetime Risk for RA Much Higher Than Expected Population-based data predict that 1 in 12 women and 1 in 20 men will develop RA or a related disease.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2011
• Treatment of Primary Sjogren's Syndrome Reviewed A systematic review found a very low level of evidence for most drugs now used in primary Sjögren's syndrome, but there were some benefits for pilocarpine and cevimeline.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2010