Salivary Ultrasonography and Histopathologic Evaluation of Secondary Sjögren's Syndrome in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

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Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2023 Jul 13

PMID 37443200

Authors

Youngjae Park

Minae Oh

Youn Soo Lee

Wan-Uk Kim

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Abstract

Novel modalities, such as salivary ultrasonography (SGUS) and shear wave elastography (SWE), have previously been introduced to evaluate Sjögren's syndrome (SS). However, in secondary SS (sSS), the diagnostic performance of SGUS and its relationship with clinicopathological characteristics have not yet been clearly defined. In this study, we aimed to investigate sSS in RA patients using SGUS and SWE and sought to determine its pathological correlations. Thirty-one RA patients who presented with sicca symptoms were included to be evaluated on SS, and were compared with 18 primary SS (pSS) patients. All subjects were assessed through SGUS, SWE, and conventional diagnostic approaches for SS, including minor salivary gland biopsy (MSGB). In SGUS evaluation, two separate scoring systems, suggested by Hocevar and OMERACT, were used. Among 31 RA patients with sicca symptoms, 19 (61.2%) were diagnosed as sSS. Similar to pSS, SGUS showed good diagnostic performance (sensitivity 68.4% and 78.9%, and specificity 91.7% and 75.0% for Hocever and OMERACT, respectively) in differentiating sSS from RA patients with simple sicca symptoms. The sSS and pSS patients exhibited significantly higher lymphoid infiltration areas in MSGB than RA patients without SS. Focus score and lymphoid infiltration areas correlated well with sonographic severity. Severity of fibrosis in MSGB showed better positive correlation with SWE than with SGUS. Similar to pSS, SGUS shows good diagnostic performance for sSS in RA patients. SWE reflects histopathologic chronicity of MSGB well in both pSS and sSS.

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