Test Your Knowledge of Sjögren's Disease Recognition and Risk
Reviewed by: HU Medical Review Board | Last reviewed: August 2026 | Last updated: September 2026
Sjögren's disease is diagnosed late more often than it is diagnosed early, and the reasons are distributed across the workup – weighted classification criteria that are easy to misapply, imaging that is specific but insensitive, and risk stratification that rests on a small number of laboratory findings. Test what you know about cover recognition, diagnostic testing, and malignancy risk with these 5 questions.
Clinical Challenge
A pulmonologist refers a patient with interstitial lung disease (ILD) of undetermined cause who reports no sicca symptoms. What do consensus guidelines on pulmonary disease in Sjögren's recommend?
Clinical Challenge
Under the 2016 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism (ACR/EULAR) classification criteria for primary Sjögren's disease, which combination of findings reaches the classification threshold?
Clinical Challenge
A prior diagnosis of which condition does not exclude a patient from classification under the 2016 ACR/EULAR criteria?
Clinical Challenge
In a patient being evaluated for Sjögren's disease, what does a normal salivary gland ultrasound establish?
Clinical Challenge
A patient with Sjögren's disease has persistent parotid enlargement. Which laboratory finding most strongly raises concern for mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma?