Imai F, Suzuki T, Katagiri T, Ohno S, Tanaka M, Dohi Y
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical School, Japan.
Jpn J Med. 1991 Jan-Feb;30(1):39-42. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine1962.30.39.
A case of subclinical Sjögren's syndrome was diagnosed when the patient delivered a baby with SSA antibody-positive congenital heart block (CHB). The mother had been asymptomatic throughout her life. The laboratory findings including sialography, lip biopsy, Schirmer's test and a Rose-Bengal test showed Sjögren's syndrome. Such an asymptomatic case is termed subclinical Sjögren's syndrome. Thus, it was important to investigate an asymptomatic mother who delivers a SSA antibody-positive CHB baby.
