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Exploring Sjogren's Videos, Sjogren's Foundation
Highly recommended. Videos one and two of the Season One series are a must see for newly diagnosed patients and their friends and family.
LABORATORY TESTS

Sjogren’s-specific Lab references
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Johns Hopkins Sjogren’s center: A fairly detailed description of blood and urine tests used for Sjogren’s patients. https://www.hopkinssjogrens.org/disease-information/diagnosis-sjogrens-syndrome/blood-and-urine-tests/
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Labs used in Sjogren's diagnosis (not including lip biopsy). This page does not describe ongoing monitoring! https://www.sjogrensadvocate.com/labs-for-dx
Autoantibody tests (such as ANA, SS-A, SS-B)
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Academic article by Didlier et al. In- depth review of Autoantibodies for many diseases, including Sjogren’s: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5879136/ ( Open Access)
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See also the Hopkins website link above.
AVISE blood test for lupus- described in this blog post by Dr. Donald Thomas
General lab test information
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Lab tests online.
Good general info, but not specific for Sjogren’s and does not cover SS-A and SS-B. There is a good, brief definition autoantibodies on this site. However, their comments about CRP and ESR in Sjogren’s are inaccurate. https://labtestsonline.org/tests-index
Nuance of lab testing
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Blog post by Kara Wada, MD. Allergist, immunologist and Sjogren's patient
Updated 09-28-2022