Despite the lack of published data regarding pregnancy in SS patients, we would recommend planning pregnancy when the disease is inactive and well controlled with safe medications (see below).

In addition, a large proportion of premenopausal women with rheumatologic disease report a lack of contraceptive counseling and have engaged in sexual practices with a significant risk of unintended ...

Treatment has proved difficult for Sjögren's syndrome (SS), a chronic autoimmune disease in which B cells infiltrate and destroy exocrine glands, leading to ocular and oral dryness. Although some ...

Outcome measures used in randomized, controlled trials, including American College of Rheumatology response criteria and Disease Activity Scores, identify when treatment should be initiated or ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Fertility in women with rheumatic diseases is generally not affected, although chronic kidney disease, amenorrhea due to ...