SHOX Duplication and Tall Stature in a Patient with Xq Deletion and Vascular Disease by J. M. Ramirez, F. A. Rodríguez, M. I. Echeverría, A. L. Vargas, A. E. Calderón, R. M. Miatello, N. F. Renna

“…Considering these reports, we evaluated the case of a woman with a deletion in the long arm of the X chromosome, premature ovarian failure, tall stature, and multiple arterial vascular disease. …”
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Uterine Arteriovenous Fistula with Concomitant Pelvic Varicocele: Endovascular Embolization with Onyx-18® by Francesco Giurazza, Fabio Corvino, Andrea Paladini, Antonio Borzelli, Domenico Scognamiglio, Giulia Frauenfelder, Giuseppe Albano, Fabio Sirimarco, Raffaella Niola

“…Here, the endovascular approach to a 29-year-old woman affected by severe menometrorrhagia caused by a uterine arteriovenous fistula with a concomitant pelvic varicocele is reported; a bilateral uterine arteries embolization with Onyx-18 (ev3, Irvine, CA, USA) has successfully resolved the fistula with clinical success.…”
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Development of Agranulocytosis after Discontinuation of Methimazole: An Unusual Case by Rıfkı Üçler, Murat Atmaca, Ömer Candar, Murat Alay, Burhan Göy, Erdal Kara, Mahfuz Turan, Yusuf Demir

“…We herein describe a case of a 41-year-old woman who was previously administered methimazole (MMI) for ten days and developed ATD-induced agranulocytosis and symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection after three weeks following discontinuation of MMI treatment. …”
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Hemoglobin Variant (Hemoglobin Aalborg) Mimicking Interstitial Pulmonary Disease by Vasiliki Panou, Peter-Diedrich Mathias Jensen, Jan Freddy Pedersen, Lars Pilegaard Thomsen, Ulla Møller Weinreich

“…Our index person was a healthy woman of 58, not previously diagnosed with hemoglobinopathy Aalborg, who developed acute respiratory failure after a routine cholecystectomy. …”
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Change of TGF-β1 Gene Expression and TGF-β1 Protein Level in Gingival Crevicular Fluid and Identification of Plaque Bacteria in a Patient with Recurrent Localized Gingival Enlargem... by Lilies Anggarwati Astuti, Mochammad Hatta, Sri Oktawati, Rosdiana Natzir, Ressy Dwiyanti

“…This case report highlights the change of TGF-β1 gene expressions and TGF-β1 protein level in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and identification of plaque bacteria in a patient with recurrent localized gingival enlargement before and after gingivectomy treatment. A 26-year-old woman came to AG Dental Care Clinic, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, in October 2015 with a chief complaint that her gingiva often bled spontaneously and she felt pain on her gingiva and felt less comfortable and no self-confidence with her anterior and posterior gingival condition on the right maxilla region which is slightly larger than normal. …”
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Subchondral Insufficiency Fracture of the Femoral Head Caused by Excessive Lateralization of the Acetabular Rim by Tetsuya Kimura, Tomohiro Goto, Daisuke Hamada, Takahiko Tsutsui, Keizo Wada, Shoji Fukuta, Akihiro Nagamachi, Koichi Sairyo

“…We present a case of a 53-year-old woman with subchondral insufficiency fracture (SIF) of the femoral head without history of severe osteoporosis or overexertion. …”
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Transient Global Amnesia with Reversible White Matter Lesions: A Variant of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome? by Tomoki Nakamizo, Ippei Tsuzuki, Takashi Koide

“…Here we report the case of a 58-year-old woman who presented with isolated amnesia and headache. …”
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Gastric Linitis Plastica and Peritoneal Carcinomatosis as First Manifestations of Occult Breast Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review by Mara Mantiero, Giovanni Faggioni, Alice Menichetti, Matteo Fassan, Valentina Guarneri, Pierfranco Conte

“…We present an unusual case of gastric linitis plastica and peritoneal carcinomatosis as manifestations of an occult breast cancer in a 53-year-old woman. Imaging and endoscopic evaluation were not able to discriminate a primary from a secondary gastric lesion. …”
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Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Noureddine Bouadel, Fahd El Ayoubi, A. Anass Bennani-Baiti, Mohamed Anas Benbouzid, Leila Essakalli, Mohammed Kzadri, Ali El Ayoubi

“…The metastasis of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma to head and neck region, described herein, has never been reported before to our knowledge. A 56-year-old woman with a history of nephrectomy, that revealed chromophobe renal cell carcinoma six years before, presented left cervical mass. …”
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Probable Anti-Glutamate Decarboxylase 65 (Gad65) Antibody-Associated Cerebellar Ataxia. Clinical Case Report and Literature Review by J. Valinčiūtė, P. Petkevičiūtė, R. Balnytė, J. Čiauškaitė

“…We present a clinical case of a 52-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital due to dizziness, impaired coordination, occasional choking, and slurred speech. …”
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Laparoscopic Removal of Angelchik Prosthesis Followed by Interval Sleeve Gastrectomy by Faryal G. Afridi, Morgan Johnson, Kelsey A. Musgrove, Salim Abunnaja, Lawrence E. Tabone, David C. Borgstrom, Nova Szoka

“…Our patient is a 66-year-old woman who had an open antireflux procedure with an AP in 1987. …”
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Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome Associated with Severe Inferior Vena Cava Stenosis by Laura Londra, Kyle Tobler, John Wu, Lisa Kolp

“…The postoperative course of a neovagina creation procedure in a young woman with Meyer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome was complicated, despite prophylaxis, by extensive pelvic deep venous thrombosis secondary to unsuspected severe inferior vena cava stenosis. …”
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Future Directions: Analyzing Health Disparities Related to Maternal Hypertensive Disorders by Margaret Harris, Colette Henke, Mary Hearst, Katherine Campbell

“…This review will serve to promote the development of interventions and strategies that better address and prevent hypertensive disorders throughout a pregnant woman’s continuum of care.…”
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Determination the site of antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli isolated From Urinary Tract Infection by Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, Zirak F. Ahmed, Bayar A Mohammed, Rasti H Saeed

“…This study includes isolation of 25 isolates of Escherichia coli (E. coli  ) strain from urinary tract samples in a pregnant woman. Microbiological and biochemical tests were used to identify the resistant bacteria of this genus. …”
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Factors Influencing Brucellosis Preventive Behaviors among Marginalized Iranian Women: An Application of the Health Belief Model by Majid Barati, Rezvan Shayghan Zahed, Marjan Bakhtiari, Yadollah Fathi, Maryam Afshari, Zahra Taheri-Kharameh

“…Via cluster random sampling methods, comprehensive health services where women get health care were selected. Each woman in the selected comprehensive health services was then enrolled by the simple random sampling method. …”
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Orbital Cystic Schwannoma Originating from the Frontal Nerve by Yasuhiko Hayashi, Takuya Watanabe, Daisuke Kita, Yutaka Hayashi, Masayuki Takahira, Jun-ichiro Hamada

“…Here, we present the case of a 65-year-old woman with a one-month history of exophthalmos, whose orbital cystic lesion was completely removed by microsurgical transcranial operation. …”
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Ovarian Carcinosarcoma and Its Association with Mature Cystic Teratoma and Primary Tubal Carcinoma by Sunida Rewsuwan, Nopporn Satabongkoch, Prapaporn Suprasert, Surapan Khunamornpong

“…Case Report. A 69-year-old woman presented with a pelvic mass. An abdominal computerized tomographic scan detected a 15 cm right pelvic mass which was suggestive of malignant transformation of a dermoid cyst. …”
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An Unusual Initial Presentation of Lupus Nephritis as a Renal Mass by Remi Goupil, Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette, Virginie Royal, Alexandre Dugas, Jean-Philippe Lafrance

“…We report a case of a 48-year-old woman who underwent partial nephrectomy for a fortuitously discovered solid enhancing left kidney mass. …”
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Isolated Distal Fibular Stress Fracture after Total Hip Arthroplasty in a Patient with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip by Tomofumi Nishino, Fumi Ochiai, Tomohiro Yoshizawa, Hajime Mishima, Masashi Yamazaki

“…We report a case of stress fracture in the isolated distal fibula that presented five months after total hip arthroplasty in a patient with developmental dysplasia of the hip. A 67-year-old woman diagnosed with coxarthrosis of the right hip joint, classified as Crowe’s group 3, underwent total hip arthroplasty with acetabular reconstruction using a bulk bone graft. …”
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Acute Liver Failure Caused by ‘Fat Burners’ and Dietary Supplements: A Case Report and Literature Review by Y Radha Krishna, V Mittal, P Grewal, MI Fiel, T Schiano

“…The present report describes a young healthy woman who presented with fulminant hepatic failure requiring emergent liver transplantation caused by a dietary supplement and fat burner containing usnic acid, green tea and guggul tree extracts. …”
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