OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to calculate preference weights for the Labor and Delivery Index (LADY-X) to make it suitable as a utility measure for perinatal care studies. METHODS In an online discrete choice experiment, 18 pairs of hypothetical scenarios were presented to respondents, from which they had to choose a preferred option. The scenarios describe the birth experience in term...

We present a case report of an 86-year-old lady with pubic ramus and sacral insufficiency fractures who developed extra-vesical bladder rupture following displacement of the pubic ramus fracture, a very unusual complication.

Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscripts represent an unusual presentation of three interrelated areas of family, devotion, and medicine. By examining her autobiography, meditations, and medical papers, I draw together literary analysis and discourses of female devotional and social practices with that of medical discourses to illustrate the ways in which women practitioners may have acquired and disse...

A middle-aged African lady, who presented with ventricular tachycardias, mitral valve regurgitation and congestive heart failure, was diagnosed with cardiac sarcoidosis. Tissue Doppler imaging demonstrated abnormalities suggestive of myocardial scar, which was confirmed by contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance.

Coronary arteriovenous fistulas are rare and may be congenital, traumatic, or iatrogenic. We report one of these rare congenital anomalies with a giant aneurismal right coronary artery (RCA) in a middle-aged lady who was asymptomatic for a long time.

An old lady of about 55 years was slightly hit accidentally with an apple on her left eye, resulting in a severe sub-conjunctival ecchymosis. This lady had myopia of a fairly high degree and has been wearing glasses, 8 D. sph. c 2.5 cyl, prescribed by me some time ago. After this accident she consulted a general practitioner who advised her to keep an icebag continuously over her injured eye. T...

A 67 year old lady with hypertension, type two diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, depression and deep vein thrombosis, independent in activities of daily living who was admitted one month history lethargy. She noted to have deterioration the living, complaining shortness breath.