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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Trigeminal Nerve Affection in Patients with Neuro-Sjögren Detected by Corneal Confocal Microscopy.

Tabea Seeliger, Marten A Gehlhaar, Irene Oluwatoba-Popoola, Franz F Konen, Melanie Haar, Emilia Donicova, Marija Wachsmann, Amelie Pielen, Stefan Gingele, Nils K Prenzler and 5 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tabea SeeligerDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6018-6826
Marten A GehlhaarDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0698-4154
Irene Oluwatoba-PopoolaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Franz F KonenDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8609-5674
Melanie HaarDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Emilia DonicovaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Marija WachsmannDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Amelie PielenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9401-2501
Stefan GingeleDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Nils K PrenzlerDepartment of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Diana ErnstDepartment of Rheumatology & Immunology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Torsten WitteDepartment of Rheumatology & Immunology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Carsten FrammeDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Anna BajorDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Thomas SkripuletzDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8550-335X
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DE

Funding

Hannover Medical School Ellen-Schmidt-Scholarship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients with Sjögren's syndrome and polyneuropathy more frequently develop cranial nerve affection when compared to patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). We therefore aimed to analyze trigeminal corneal nerve fibre characteristics in both patient groups.

methodsA total of 26 patients with Sjögren's syndrome associated neuropathy and 29 patients with CIDP were recruited at our university hospital and compared to 6 healthy controls. Dry eye symptoms and signs were assessed via clinical examination and the Ocular Disease Surface Index questionnaire. Trigeminal corneal nerve fibres were analyzed via corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) as a non-invasive in vivo microscopy.

resultsCCM revealed significantly reduced corneal nerve fibre density and corneal nerve fibre main branch density in the Neuro-Sjögren group when compared with healthy controls. There were no significant group differences between the Neuro-Sjögren and the CIDP group for any of the microscopic parameters. Dry eye assessment showed similarly reduced scores for both patient groups, while healthy controls showed better results for objective dry eye signs. There was no correlation between microscopic parameters of the corneal confocal microscopy and parameters of dry eye assessment.

conclusionsOur data revealed trigeminal corneal nerve affection in patients with neuropathy associated with Sjögren's syndrome and patients with CIDP detected by CCM. No difference was found between both neuropathy groups indicating that CCM is not able to distinguish between both entities.

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corneal confocal microscopycorneal nerve fibre densityNeuro-SjögrenSjögren’s syndrome associated neuropathy

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