Step-by-step combination of 99mTc and ICG with endoscopic near infrared cameras in SLN mapping early-stage vulvar cancer by A. Rafael Guijarro-Campillo, Pablo Padilla-Iserte, Víctor Lago, Raquel Quintana-Bertó, Marta Arnáez-De La Cruz, Aníbal Nieto, Santiago Domingo Del Pozo

“…However, protocols for ICG use remain heterogeneous, and the optimal protocol is yet to be defined [5,6].This video article presents a stepwise demonstration of the SLN mapping technique using a combination of radioactive 99 m-Tc and ICG with endoscopic near-infrared (NIR) cameras in two cases. A 52-year-old woman diagnosed with T1 vulvar cancer, with no extravulvar disease, was scheduled for wide local tumor excision and bilateral inguinal SLN biopsy. …”
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Complement Factor H Gene Variant in a Patient with Thrombotic Microangiopathy on a Mixed Clinical Background by Yoichi Iwafuchi, Tetsuo Morioka, Yuko Oyama, Shin Goto, Ichiei Narita

“…We report the case of a patient with complement factor H gene variant, who developed thrombotic microangiopathy on a mixed clinical background. A 79-year-old woman was transferred to Sanjo General Hospital for maintenance hemodialysis. …”
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Management of Severe COVID-19 in Pregnancy by Yassamine Abourida, Houssam Rebahi, Imane Oussayeh, Hajar Chichou, Bouchra Fakhir, Abderraouf Soummani, Hicham Jalal, Fatiha Bennaoui, Nadia El Idrissi Slitine, Fadl Mrabih Rabou Maoulainine, Ahmed Rhassane El Adib, Mohamed Abdenacer Samkaoui

“…A healthy 30-year-old pregnant woman, gravida 6, para 4, at 31 weeks of gestation, presented severe pneumonia symptoms promptly complicated with premature rupture of membranes (PROM). …”
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Rare Manifestation of a Rare Disease, Acute Liver Failure in Adult Onset Still’s Disease: Dramatic Response to Methylprednisolone Pulse Therapy—A Case Report and Review by Nalini Valluru, Venkata S. Tammana, Michael Windham, Eyasu Mekonen, Rehana Begum, Andrew Sanderson

“…Here, we present a case of 22-year-old woman with no significant medical history who initially came with fever, arthralgias, myalgias, generalized weakness, and sore throat. …”
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Uterine Intravenous Leiomyomatosis with Cardiac Extension: Radiologic Assessment with Surgical and Pathologic Correlation by Go Nakai, Kazuya Maeda, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Takashi Yamada, Yoshinobu Hirose, Yoshito Terai, Masahide Ohmichi, Takahiro Katsumata, Yoshifumi Narumi

“…We present the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of a 71-year-old woman with a cardiac extension of intravenous leiomyoma (IVL) that arose from the uterus, extended to the inferior vena cava (IVC), and reached the right ventricle through the right ovarian vein. …”
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Subacute Urinary Retention due to a Subpubic Cartilaginous Cyst Treated with Surgical Resection and Internal Fixation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Yu Taniguchi, Hiroshi Kamada, Hisashi Sugaya, Tomofumi Nishino, Hajime Mishima, Naoyuki Ochiai, Masashi Yamazaki

“…We report a case of a subpubic cartilaginous cyst in a 62-year-old woman that caused lower abdominal pain and subacute urinary retention, requiring surgical resection. …”
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Does Probability Guided Hysteroscopy Reduce Costs in Women Investigated for Postmenopausal Bleeding? by M. C. Breijer, N. van Hanegem, N. C. M. Visser, R. H. M. Verheijen, B. W. J. Mol, J. M. A. Pijnenborg, B. C. Opmeer, A. Timmermans

“…At a 65% cut-off, a possible saving of € 3 per woman could be achieved. Conclusions. Individualizing the decision to perform an endometrial biopsy or immediate hysteroscopy in women presenting with postmenopausal bleeding based on patient characteristics does not increase the efficiency of the diagnostic work-up.…”
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Community Engaged Lifestyle Modification Research: Engaging Diabetic and Prediabetic African American Women in Community-Based Interventions by Starla Hairston Blanks, Henrie Treadwell, Anya Bazzell, Whitney Graves, Olivia Osaji, Juanita Dean, James T. McLawhorn, Jareese Lee Stroud

“…Purpose. The I Am Woman (IAW) Program is a community-based, culturally responsive, and gender-specific nutrition, obesity, and diabetes educational prevention program designed for African American women (AAW). …”
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Pericardial Involvement in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia by Abir Derbel, Mouna Snoussi, Raida Ben Salah, Faten Frikha, Leila Abid, Imed Frikha, Sameh Marzouk, Zouhir Bahloul

“…We report the case of a 48-years-old woman which was hospitalized in 2015 in internal medicine department, Sfax, Tunisia in 2015 for anicteric cholestasis. …”
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Association Between Walking Speed and Urinary Incontinence in the Older Women. Which Patients Should be Referred to Geriatricians? by Volkan Atmis, Basak Guler

“…CONCLUSION: Whenever urinary incontinence is detected in an older woman, geriatrician referral should be considered since urinary incontinence is associated with decreased walking speed, Handgrip strength test, Activities of Daily Living, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living or increased Geriatric Depression Scale; any of which is a symptom or result of at least one geriatric syndrome. …”
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Case report: 10-year follow-up of a patient with neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease and a literature review by Kenji Yoshida, Tomotsugu Kaga, Sachiko Hosoyama, Jun-ichi Niwa, Jun Sone, Naoki Mabuchi

“…Herein, we present a case of a patient with NIID who underwent a 10-year brain MRI follow-up study and a literature review. A 78-year-old woman presented with severe cognitive dysfunction and disturbances of consciousness. …”
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A Case of Lymphocytic Myocarditis with Eosinophilic Degranulation Successfully Treated with Steroid Therapy by Tomoko Inoue, Fusako Sera, Shunsuke Nishimura, Kei Nakamoto, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Isamu Mizote, Tomohito Ohtani, Shungo Hikoso, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Yumiko Hori, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda, Eiichi Morii, Tetsuo Minamino, Yasushi Sakata

“…A 49-year-old woman was admitted with suspicion of acute myocarditis. …”
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Food Insecurity and Not Dietary Diversity Is a Predictor of Nutrition Status in Children within Semiarid Agro-Ecological Zones in Eastern Kenya by Zipporah N. Bukania, Moses Mwangi, Robert M. Karanja, Richard Mutisya, Yeri Kombe, Lydia U. Kaduka, Timothy Johns

“…Materials and Methods. A total of 277 woman-child pairs aged 15–46 years and 6–36 months respectively, were recruited from farmer households. …”
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Effects of trigger-day progesterone in c-IVF/ICSI cycles on blastocyst culture outcomes by Yating Sun, Jia Wang, Luyun Zhang, Yanjun Chang, Aizhen Zhu

“…In ICSI cycles, compared with that (28.69%) in the normal level group, the D5 available blastocyst rate (19.13%, adjusted OR, 0.369; 95% CI, 0.194-0.703; P=0.002) in the high level group was significantly decreased.Conclusion(s)This study demonstrated that in the c-IVF/ICSI population, the trigger-day slightly elevated P (1.0-1.5ng/ml) was not related to blastocyst culture outcomes, while the trigger-day elevated P (>1.5ng/ml) was an important factor affecting D5 available blastocyst rate, especially when the woman was younger than 35 years old or insemination type was ICSI.…”
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Ovarian adenomyoma: a case report by Weilong Liu, Tongtong Yao, Haiyan Wang, Wenjing Yu, Hongtang Shi, Jiwei Guo, Zhiqiang Liu

“…Case presentation A 50-year-old woman presented with lower abdominal pain during her menstrual period for the past two months. …”
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Perceived barriers to reaching equity in effective access to diagnosis and treatment for women with breast cancer in Chile by Carla Campaña, Báltica Cabieses, Alexandra Obach, Francisca Vezzani

“…From the determinants of health model, a woman from the public health system, with low income, under 30 or over 40, and residing in a different region from the metropolitan region faces more barriers to access to an effective healthcare. …”
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Role Of Low Dose Aspirin In Preventing Preterm Birth In Patients With Previous History Of Preterm Delivery by Maliha Sadaf, Aasia Saleem, Tallat Farkhanda, Khansa Iqbal, Sabeen Ashraf, Amna Iftikhar

“…Conclusion: aspirin in low dose  given before 14 weeks of gestation decrease spontaneous preterm birth as compared to the control group in a woman with a history of previous  preterm birth which was spontaneous …”
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Case presentation: Breast abscess by Obiozor AC, Obiozor AA

“…Methods: This case report presents the radiological evaluation of a breast abscess in a 25-year-old non-lactating woman who presented in a radio-diagnostic centre in Umuahia with complaints of breast swelling, breast pain and fever for one week. …”
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Pyogenic Lumbar Facet Joint Infection with Foot Drop by Haruka Maehara, Toshihiro Sano, Yuki Yanagawa, Kyuichi Hashimoto, Nobuaki Tadokoro

“…The patient was a 44-year-old woman who had a previous history of orthotic therapy for idiopathic scoliosis. …”
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Hypermobile Anterior Horn of the Lateral Meniscus: A Case Report and Literature Review by Hirotaka Nakashima, Yasuhiro Takahara, Yoichiro Uchida, Hisayoshi Kato, Satoru Itani, Yoshitaka Tsujimura, Makoto Nakamura, Yuichi Iwasaki

“…This case report presented a rare case of a hypermobile anterior horn of the lateral meniscus. An 18-year-old woman visited our hospital for left knee pain without trauma. …”
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