Sjogren biography

Famous people with sjögren's

Henrik Sjögren was born near Stockholm in He studied at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and graduated as a medical doctor in In , he examined a female patient .

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Keywords: autoimmunity; inflammation; sjogren's syndrome.

Sjögren's syndrome triad

Henrik Sjögren died on the 17th September His expertise not only led to the defining of Sjögren disease but he was also the first person to develop the recognition of corneal grafting.


Sjögren's syndrome
Sjögren's syndrome is a chronic autoimmune and inflammatory disease characterized by lymphocyte proliferation that progressively destroys exocrine glands.