• K Henry, C Deligny, P Witkowski Durand Viel, J Morel, P Guilpain, and R Goulabchand.
• Département de médecine interne et maladies multi-organiques (MIMMO), CHU de Montpellier, hôpital Saint-Éloi, Montpellier, France; Service de médecine interne, CHU de Pierre-Zobda-Quitman, Fort-de-France, Martinique, France. Electronic address: kim.henry@chu-martinique.fr.
• Rev Med Interne. 2022 Dec 1; 43 (12): 696702696-702.

IntroductionInfections are responsible for a part of the overall mortality in primary Sjögren's syndrome patients (pSS). Our retrospective monocentric study aimed at describing infections reported in a population of pSS hospitalized patients, along with the characteristics of their disease.MethodsPatients with SS have been randomly selected from our hospital database claim, between 2009 and 2018. After careful analysis of their medical chart, only patients with pSS and fulfilling ACR/EULAR 2016 diagnosis criteria were included. We collected main clinical, biological and pathological characteristics of SS, along with all the reported infections during the follow-up. The characteristics of the disease were compared according to the presence of an infection in hospitalization.ResultsIn total, 109 pSS patients were included (93% of women, mean age 53.6±14.3 years, mean follow-up 8.2±8.4 years). Fifty-one percent had been exposed to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Seventy-eight infections were recorded in 47 (43%) patients. Twenty-five infections were recorded in hospitalization (5 in critical care) in 20 (18%) patients, whom leading causes were urinary tract (28%), pulmonary (24%), ENT (16%), and intestinal (12%) infections. pSS patients with infections in hospitalization were older, exhibited more hypocomplementemia, and were less exposed to HCQ. We found no difference in immunosuppressive treatments exposure.ConclusionsThe impact of HCQ exposure on infectious risk needs further investigations. Broad vaccination campaign and tight control of sicca syndrome could lead to a better control of infection risk.Copyright © 2022 Société Nationale Française de Médecine Interne (SNFMI). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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