RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Sialochemistry of patients with autoimmune rheumatic disease with and without histological manifestations of Sjögren's syndrome.
JF Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
JO Ann Rheum Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism
SP 412
OP 414
DO 10.1136/ard.44.6.412
VO 44
IS 6
A1 E B Tsianos
A1 A G Tzioufas
A1 A K Mavridis
A1 A K Sarras
A1 C S Papadimitriou
A1 O Tsolas
A1 H M Moutsopoulos
YR 1985
UL http://ard.bmj.com/content/44/6/412.abstract
AB Fifty-one patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases underwent biopsy of the labial minor salivary glands. These patients were divided according to histopathology of lip biopsies into three groups (negative lip biopsy, 1+ and 2+). From all the patients stimulated parotid salivary flow was measured. In the saliva sodium, potassium, magnesium, alpha-amylase, and immunoglobulin levels (IgA, IgG, IgM) were measured. It is shown that patients with advanced chronic inflammatory disease of the minor salivary glands have decreased stimulated salivary flow. However, no statistically significant differences were observed in the biochemical markers tested between the histopathological groups examined.