...Ju-Hong Shi; Hong-Rui Liu; Wen-Bing Xu; Rui-E. Feng; Zhu-Hua Zhang; Xin-Lun Tian; Yuan-Jue Zhu Background: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (PSS) is associated with various histological patterns of interstitial lung disease. Although chest images and lung function studies showed that lung involvement...

...N. Inase; Y. Usui; H. Tachi; S. Takayama; M. Nakayama; M. Korenaga; H. Miura; Y. Kimula A 52-year-old woman with Sjögren’s syndrome presented with a dense lymphocytic infiltrate around the bronchial gland disclosed by a transbronchial lung biopsy specimen. Two and a half years after the initial...

...H. Giotaki; S.H. Constantopoulos; C.S. Papadimitriou; H.M. Moutsopoulos Sixty labial minor salivary gland biopsies (lip biopsies) from 32 patients with sarcoidosis and 28 patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome were evaluated retrospectively and blindly. Six biopsies revealed typical sarcoid...

...F. Bariffi; A. Pesci; G. Bertorelli; P. Manganelli; U. Ambanelli In this study we tried to value the frequency and the characteristics of the physiological abnormalities affecting the lungs in Sjögren’s syndrome (SS). We studied 18 female nonsmokers (average age 53 years). The diagnosis has been...

...S.H. Constantopoulos; A.A. Drosos; P.J. Maddison; H.M. Moutsopoulos 22 patients with primary Sjogren’s syndrome were prospectively studied for respiratory system involvement with clinical, roentgenological and functional parameters. 12 patients (55%) had respiratory manifestations. In 10/12 (83...

.... Pi phenotypes other than ZZ and MM) might predispose to the development of pulmonary disease, Pi phenotypes were determined in a group of patients in whom the incidence of chronic pulmonary disease is high. The proportion of 52 patients with Sjögren’s syndrome who had Pi phenotypes other than ZZ...