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Gastrointestinal Involvement in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome

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Gastrointestinal involvement in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) may include altered esophageal motility, gastroesophageal reflux, chronic gastritis and, less frequently, intestinal malabsorption [1–3] (Table 16.1).

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  1. Spanish Group of Autoimmune Diseases (GEAS), Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI), Sjögren Syndrome Research Group (AGAUR), Laboratory of Autoimmune Diseases Josep Font, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Department of Autoimmune Diseases, ICMD Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain

    Manuel Ramos-Casals

  2. Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de la Vila-Joiosa, Alicante, Spain

    José Rosas

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

    Roser Solans

  4. Medical and Health Science Center, Clinical Immunology Division, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

    Margit Zeher & Peter Szodoray

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Ramos-Casals, M., Rosas, J., Solans, R., Zeher, M., Szodoray, P. (2011). Gastrointestinal Involvement in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome. In: Ramos-Casals, M., Stone, J., Moutsopoulos, H. (eds) Sjögren’s Syndrome. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-947-5_16

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