Peripheral inflammatory vascular disease in Sjögren's syndrome. Association with nervous system complications.

Two histopathologic types of inflammatory vascular disease (IVD) occur in Sjögren's syndrome (SS): mononuclear IVD (MIVD) and neutrophilic IVD (NIVD). We describe 50 SS patients with IVD (30 with NIVD and 20 with MIVD). Thirty-three (66%) of the SS patients with biopsy-documented IVD had nervous system disease unattributable to other causes. Nineteen patients (58%) had involvement of both the central and peripheral nervous systems, while 9 had peripheral and 5 had central nervous system dysfunction alone. Patients with both histopathologic types of IVD were at risk for the development of nervous system abnormalities (57% of NIVD patients and 80% of MIVD patients). Indirect evidence is presented which suggests that IVD may play a role in the immunopathogenesis of nervous system disease, at least in a subset of SS patients.

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