Cutaneous vasculitis subtype ups cancer, infection risk in Sjögren’s disease

Key takeaways:

Adults with Sjögren’s disease and cutaneous vasculitis are more likely to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The higher risk was observed only among patients with the subtype type II cryoglobulinemic vasculitis.

Adults with Sjögren’s disease complicated by a subtype of cutaneous vasculitis are more likely to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and infection, data from a retrospective study show.

Cutaneous vasculitis (CV) is a severe complication of primary Sjögren’s disease , often indicating systemic involvement and a poor prognosis, Paul Breillat, MD, a clinical fellow in the department of internal medicine at the National Reference Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Dermatology.

Data derived from Breillat P,