Combination of Sjogren’s disease with autoimmune thyroiditis: A case history

Abstract

Therapists, including rheumatologists, often forget that many autoimmune diseases are combined with endocrine pathology, in particular with thyroid pathology.

These cases, according to the classification of N. Smith and A. Steinberg, belong to the 5th class - class E of autoimmune diseases, which includes conditions that manifest several autoimmune diseases, both organ-specific and organ-specific.

In the literature, cases of combinations of endocrine diseases with non-endocrine autoimmune are described. It was noted that they are most often found in young women, which are associated with the X chromosome.

We give our own observation of a patient with Sjogren's disease in combination with thyroid pathology.