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Furthermore, in many cases, Sjögren's syndrome diagnosis had been sought because of otherwise unexplained non-exocrine features.
The association of abnormal liver function tests with other non-exocrine features of 1°SS is shown in Figure 2. Patients with abnormal liver function tests were more likely to have lung, kidney or hematological manifestations, when compared to Sjögren's patients without liver disease.
In all these patients, the biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome.
Casciola-Rosen and coworkers have proposed that modifications of autoantigens during cell death, particularly proteolytic cleavage, might be crucial for the generation of autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases [ 23 37 ] . Unique proteolytic fragments of α-fodrin and type 3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor have been implicated in the generation of autoantibody responses in primary Sjögren's syndrome [ 38 39 ] .
In this group of Sjögren's patients seen at a tertiary care center, abnormal liver function tests were found to be a common non-exocrine feature of 1°SS.