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What tools or disease activity markers do you find most useful in tracking disease activity in Sjogren's patients?
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Rheumatology · University of Kansas Medical Center
The frequency of monitoring depends on the patient’s phenotype. For example, in patients with evidence of immunologic activity at baseline, such as B-cell hyperactivity, hypocomplementemia, or cryoglobulinemia, labs should generally be repeated every 3 to 6 months, particularly if they have active e...
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Rheumatology · University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco
This would vary depending on the phenotype of the patient and which systemic domains were affected at a given point in time. The only validated disease activity instrument accepted by regulatory agencies at present is the ESSDAI (Seror et al., PMID 31236580), and the patient-reported outcome (ESSPRI...