Henrik Sjögren

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Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren
Ophthalmologist
Known forSjögren syndrome

Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren (

eponymous condition Sjögren syndrome. Sjögren received his medical degree in Stockholm 1927. His first experience with the syndrome was an encounter with a 49-year-old woman with arthritis and extreme dryness of the eyes and the mouth. He worked with his wife, Maria, to describe a total of 19 cases and presented these cases for his doctoral theses in 1933,[4] which was published at the Karolinska Institute and titled "On knowledge of keratoconjunctivitis"[5]
that eventually served as the basis of identifying and naming of Sjögren's syndrome. He had one child, born in 1934, named Gunvor.

References

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  5. ^ Sjogren H. On knowledge of kerataconjunctivitis sicca. Keratitis filiformis due to lacrimal gland hypofunction. Acts Opthslmol 1933; Suppl 2:1-151