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Primary Sjögren's syndrome (1°SS) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by dry eyes (keratoconjunctivitis sicca), dry mouth (xerostomia) as well as involvement of other exocrine glands.
All patients studied had objective evidence of 1°SS, including keratoconjunctivitis sicca, positive labial salivary gland biopsy, autoantibodies and/or salivary gland hypofunction.
Also, in most cases sicca symptoms are not present in individuals with HCV as compared with the 1°SS population.
Other authors had proposed that SS associated with PBC should be considered a form of secondary SS that resembles more the "sicca complex" with exocrine features seen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis [ 40 41 ] .