Patients with Sjögren’s syndrome in the Iwate Medical University Hospital.

Abstract

Patients with Sjögren’s syndrome (SjS) in the Medical and Dental Hospital of Iwate Medical University during the past 6 years were studied clinically and the following results were obtained.

(1) 17caces were diagnosed as definite SjS by the criteria of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan, and 7 cases were diagnosed as probable SjS by same criteria.

(2) All patients with definite SjS were female, and their mean age was 51.1-year-old. Patients with probable S S were 5 females and 2 males, and their mean age was 53.0.

(3) The ma or symptoms of patients with SjS were xerostomia (88.2%), xerophthalmia (64.7%), ocular foreign body sensation (47.1%), ocular causalgia (41.2%), oral causalgia (29.4%), swelling of the parotid region (29.4%), and others.

(4) Patients with definite SjS were classified into the following groups: sicca alone (41.4%), overlapping with rheumatoid arthritis (5.9%), with other connective tissue diseases (29.4%), and with other autoimmune diseases (23.5%).

(5) In addition to the above results, 3 cases of SjS associated with rare diseases (pseudolympnoma, pancreatic disease, swelling of the minor salivary gland) were reported.