Behçet’s disease: recurrent ischemic stroke as an initial presentation – a case based review by Anwar Albasri, Wesam Gouda, Faisal Alsaqabi, Mahmoud M. Magdy, Ashraf A. Mostafa, Nehal El Ghobashy

“…Herein, we report a 37-year-old Kuwaiti woman who experienced recurrent ischemic stroke with no traditional risk factors. …”
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Microscopic Polyangiitis following Silicone Exposure from Breast Implantation by Judy Tan, Fuad Spath, Rakesh Malhotra, Zaher Hamadeh, Anjali Acharya

“…A 57-year-old Hispanic woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever, cough, and hemoptysis. …”
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Mixed Acinar-Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Pancreas with Neuroendocrine Predominance by Onyekachi Henry Ogbonna, Marie Carmel Garcon, Kostas N. Syrigos, Muhammad Wasif Saif

“…We report an interesting case of MANEC with neuroendocrine cell predominance in a woman presenting with epigastric pain secondary to a pancreatic mass with acinar and endocrine differentiation. …”
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Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Emeka B. Kesieme, Browne C. Okonkwo, Peter O. Okokhere, Georgi Prisadov, Eghosa Aigbe, Christopher Affusim

“…We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. …”
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Chronic Q fever: An ongoing challenge in diagnosis and management by Ira Das, Nicola Guest, Richard Steeds, Peter Hewins

“…The current difficulty in the diagnosis of this condition is discussed in the present article. A 51-year-old woman with a history of aortic valve replacement presented with complaints of feeling generally unwell, pyrexia and occasional unproductive cough over a period of several weeks. …”
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Solitary Pulmonary Nodule: A Diagnostic Dilemma by Pardeep Masuta, Ioana Amzuta

“…This case describes a woman with a history of tobacco abuse who presented with a dry cough and was found to have an enlarging, 4 cm right upper lobe nodule without lymphadenopathy on CT imaging of the chest. …”
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Pemphigus Vulgaris Presented with Cheilitis by Zaheer Abbas, Zahra Safaie Naraghi, Elham Behrangi

“…We report a 41-year-old woman with dry crusted lesions only on the lower lip, clinically resembling actinic cheilitis and erosive lichen planus, but histopathological evaluation showed unexpected results of suprabasal acantholysis and cleft compatible with pemphigus vulgaris. …”
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HeartMate 3 upgrade and aortic root replacement for severe aortic insufficiency and ventricular fibrillation by Katlin T. Schmitz, MD, Sara S. Inglis, MB, BCh, BAO, Mauricio A. Villavicencio, MD, MBA, Adrian daSilva-deAbreu, MD, MSc, PhD(c)

“…A 31-year-old woman with left ventricular (LV) assist device (LVAD) support presented with refractory ventricular arrhythmias attributed to severe aortic insufficiency and inadequate left ventricular offloading. …”
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Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma involving the superficial femoral artery and femoral vein by Rachad Wehbe, MD, Xi Wang, BMed, Karina A. Newhall, MD, MS, Michael C. Stoner, MD, Doran S. Mix, MD, Grayson S. Pitcher, MD

“…We present the case of a 64-year-old woman who presented with new-onset claudication and an atypical vascular mass involving the superficial femoral artery and femoral vein. …”
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When the Uterus Competes for Perfusion: Management of a Pregnant Patient with Bypass Graft Occlusion by Sarah McGriff, Paige Percer, Iberia Sosa, Hector Mendez-Figueroa, Joseph L. Mills, Manisha Gandhi

“…This becomes even more complicated in the setting of active disease and history of prior vascular grafts. Case. A woman presented with increasing left lower extremity pain at 18 weeks of gestation with a complex history of PAD and a previous bifurcated aorta-left femoral, -right iliac bypass. …”
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Intestinal Obstruction and Ileocolic Fistula due to Intraluminal Migration of a Gossypiboma by Evangelos Margonis, Dionysia Vasdeki, Alexandros Diamantis, Georgios Koukoulis, Grigorios Christodoulidis, Konstantinos Tepetes

“…We report a case of a 36-year-old woman who was admitted to our surgical department with symptoms of abdominal pain associated with episodes of nausea and vomiting that lasted for 2 months. …”
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Kewaspadaan Terhadap Kanker pada Perempuan Keturunan Pasien Kanker Payudara by Boby Febri Krisdianto, Fitri Mailani

“…This research emphasizes the importance of a woman who is at risk of breast cancer from her mother getting counselling and health education about cancer awareness by reflecting on her mother diagnosed with breast cancer. …”
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Usages du futurisme médical en Chine pré-républicaine : craniotomie et régénération dans deux récits de science-fiction (1904-1905). by Florine Leplâtre

“…What is at stake is certainly more symbol and ideology than scientific popularization: the episodes literally depicts the making of the new man/citizen/woman. By examining these episodes in their narrative and paratextual context, this paper discusses how polysemic and even contradictory is the use of this imaginary biotechnology. …”
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Suspected Transient Ischemic Attack Related to Dysfunctional Quadricuspid Aortic Valve by Arun Katwaroo MBBS, Jessica Kawall MBBS, Priya Ramcharan MBBS, Valmiki Seecheran MBBS, MSc, Rajeev Seecheran MBBS, MHA, Nafeesah Ali MBBS, Shari Khan MBBS, Naveen Anand Seecheran MBBS, MD, MSc

“…We describe a 30-year-old Caribbean-Black woman with a clinical presentation suggestive of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) with no conventional cerebrovascular risk factors, albeit with a newly diagnosed quadricuspid aortic valve (QAV) with moderate aortic regurgitation (AR). …”
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Features of pregnancy after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation in patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Case report by Madina I. Yevloyeva, Darya U. Savitskaya, Anastasia S. Severina, Minara S. Shamkhalova, Natalia P. Trubitsyna, Marina V. Shestakova

“…These risks are significantly reduced with pregnancy planning, regular monitoring of the woman and fetus with timely correction of immunosuppressive therapy, maintenance of target blood pressure and glycemia, selection of optimal timing and method of delivery. …”
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Fatal Septic Shock in a Patient with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with an Infectious Mononucleosis by Giorgio Berlot, Ariella Tomasini, Lorenzo Zandonà, Eugenio Leonardo, Rossana Bussani, Nadia Zarrillo

“…The authors describe the case of a young woman who developed a clinical pictures resembling a septic shock-related multiple organ dysfunction syndrome a couple of months after having been diagnosed suffering from a hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis associated with an infectious mononucleosis. …”
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Advancing Gender Equity in Health: The Role of Medical Women’s International Association by Wajiha Rizwan, Eleanor Nwadinobi

“…Notable initiatives include the Equity 2030 Alliance with UNFPA, focusing on women-centric research, and the ‘Every Woman Treaty’ advocating for global standards to end violence against women. …”
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Case Report: Metastatic involvement of the acromioclavicular joint in a patient with papillary carcinoma of the ureter by Cihangir Türemiş, Mustafa Çeltik, Mehmet Erduran

“…Although previous studies have documented bone metastases mainly in the pelvis, spine, ribs, and femur, this case report presents the first recorded instance of metastasis occurring in the acromioclavicular joint. A 62-year-old woman with a history of left flank pain and macroscopic hematuria underwent a left nephroureterectomy, which revealed ureteral papillary carcinoma. …”
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The Traumatic Tube: Bleeding Rectal Ulcer Caused by Flexi-Seal Device by Abhinav Tiwari, Himani Sharma, Khola Qamar, Yaseen Alastal, Thomas Sodeman, Ali Nawras

“…Here, we present a case of a 77-year-old woman who was admitted due to massive hematochezia while on anticoagulation. …”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…The variety of circumstances, the setting and staging, the interlocutors , and the complex intersection of time and place, of stories and History, will be examined; in these conversations with Miss Jane many actors participate, from  the interviewer-narrator, to most characters; even the reader becomes involved.Speaking, hearing, listening, keeping silent is an elaborate ritual that performs many functions; besides conveying news or rumors, it imparts information on the times and on the life of a “representative” woman whose existence - spanning a whole century- is both singular and emblematic. …”
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