Sjögren's syndrome
hypersensitivity reaction type II disease affecting the exocrine glands
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Sjögren's syndrome is designated as an intractable/rare disease[1].
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Henrik Sjögren[3]
- Instance of: class of disease[4]
- Named after: Henrik Sjögren[5]
- Subclass of: autoimmune disease of exocrine system[6]
- Commons category: Sjögren's syndrome[7]
- Symptoms and signs: xerostomia[8], xerophthalmia[9]
- Has cause: autoimmunity[10]
- External data available at URL: http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/111[11]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[12]
- ICD-9-CM: 710.2[13]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C70647[14], C26883[15]
- Health specialty: immunology[16], rheumatology[17]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: alpha-linolenic acid[18]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_12894[19], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:12894[20], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_378[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[22]
- P14541: 3nNblD[23]
Why It Matters
Sjögren's syndrome has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]