Crowned dens syndrome: a rare cause of acute neck pain.

Crowned dens syndrome (CDS) is a rare but underrecognized cause of severe neck pain in older adults. It is characterized by acute onset pain and stiffness of the cervical spine. Accompanying fever and elevated inflammatory markers often lead to misdiagnosis.

Shrinking lung syndrome masked by pleuropericarditis: a case report and review of the literature.

The purpose of this article is to present an unusual case of shrinking lung syndrome (SLS) masked by pleuropericarditis with a review of the literature. We report a case of SLS in a 44-year-old woman in which the diagnosis was initially confounded by concurrent pleuropericarditis. The English medical literature was comprehensively reviewed for SLS for its presentation, clinical findings, diagnosis, treatment, with specific focus on its pathogenesis.

Time to disease-modifying antirheumatic drug treatment in rheumatoid arthritis and its predictors: a national, multicenter, retrospective cohort.

Objective: To determine the proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) under rheumatologic care treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) within 6 months from symptom onset and the components of time to treatment and its predictors.

Methods: A historical inception cohort of 339 patients with RA randomly selected from 18 rheumatology practices was audited. The proportion that initiated DMARD treatment within 6 months from symptom onset was estimated using Kaplan-Meier analysis.

Early management of newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis by Canadian rheumatologists: a national, multicenter, retrospective cohort.

Objective: To describe early rheumatologic management for newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Canada.

Methods: A retrospective cohort of 339 randomly selected patients with RA diagnosed from 2001-2003 from 18 rheumatology practices was audited between 2005-2007.

Results: The most frequent initial disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) included hydroxychloroquine (55.

Two Less Common Causes of Headache in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus that May Require Specific Measures.

Headache is a frequent occurrence in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We present two cases of young women with headache and papilledema. One patient had this as a presenting manifestation of SLE, and the other had known active SLE.