Log and Other Poems

Mystic Poems, Poems of Enlightment

POEMS syndrome.

POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to a plasma cell dyscrasia. Recognition of the complex of a combination of peripheral neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasmaproliferative disorder, skin changes, papilledema, extravascular volume overload (peripheral edema, pleural effusions, ascites), sclerotic bone lesions, thrombocytosis, Castleman disease is the...

POEMS syndrome.

POEMS syndrome is the syndrome of Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal protein and typical Skin changes. A 65-year-old lady presented with the 2-day-history of inability to walk, 4-month-history of progressive worsening of muscle weakness of both lower limbs and 1-year-history of progressive worsening of bilateral numbness of lower limbs. Nerve conduction study revealed gene...

Pd poems and teaching tools

Music offers an intriguing context to engage children in electronics, programming and more. Over the last year we been developing a hardware and software toolkit for music called modular-muse. Here we describe the design and goals for these tools and how they have been used in different settings to introduce children to concepts of interaction design for music and sound design. Two exploratory ...

Glomeruloid haemangioma and POEMS syndrome.

A 49-year-old milkman presented after the acute onset of blurred vision, anorexia, malaise, weight loss and ankle swelling. There was also a 4-month history of progressive dyspnoea, weakness, parasthesiae, tinnitus and hearing loss and earlier nerve conduction studies had revealed a demyelinating peripheral neuropathy. After a normal CT scan, undertaken because the patient had papilloedema, the...