Neurology

Sjogren’s syndrome

Questions discussed in this category

What is the role of skin biopsy for evaluating small fiber neuropathy in patients with rheumatic disease who have treatment recalcitrant pain?

Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) can be found in rheumatological condition with varying degrees of frequency. Possible numbers include 38% in SLE, 3-9% Sj...

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Do you consider immunosuppression in patients with a history of Sjogren's disease and clinical features of inclusion body myositis?

Patient with long-standing history of Sjogren's (+SSA) and muscle weakness (muscle biopsy showed chronic myopathic changes with Lymphocytic inflammati...

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What is your treatment approach to neurological Sjogrens disease with both peripheral neuropathy and transverse myelitis?

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When do you consider immunosuppression in patients with Sjogren's neuropathy?

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In what patients would you consider adjunctive IVIG for Sjogren's-related neuropathy?

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Papers discussed in this category

Muscle & nerve, 2007-01

Rituximab treatment in patients with IVIg-dependent immune polyneuropathy: a prospective pilot trial.

Annals of neurology, 1990-03

Ataxic sensory neuropathy and dorsal root ganglionitis associated with Sjögren's syndrome.

Rheum Dis Clin North Am, 2017 Aug 23

Neurologic Manifestations of Primary Sjögren Syndrome.

Neurology,

Benefit of IVIG for long-standing ataxic sensory neuronopathy with Sjögren's syndrome. IV immunoglobulin.

Medicine (Baltimore),

Sjögren Sensory Neuronopathy (Sjögren Ganglionopathy): Long-Term Outcome and Treatment Response in a Series of 13 Cases.

Muscle Nerve, 2014 Dec 23

Sensory ganglionopathy with livedoid vasculopathy controlled by immunotherapy.

Archives of neurology, 2006 Oct

Intraepidermal nerve fiber densities in chronic inflammatory autoimmune diseases.

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2022 Mar 04

Skin biopsy and small fibre neuropathies: facts and thoughts 30 years later.

European journal of neurology, 2010 Jul

European Federation of Neurological Societies/Peripheral Nerve Society Guideline on the use of skin biopsy in the diagnosis of small fiber neuropathy. Report of a joint task force of the European Federation of Neurological Societies and the Peripheral Nerve Society.

Medicine, 2004 Sep

Neurologic manifestations in primary Sjögren syndrome: a study of 82 patients.

Archives of neurology, 2006 Nov

Peripheral neuropathy in primary sjogren syndrome: a population-based study.

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