The polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M protein, skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare multisystem disorder of obscure pathogenesis associated with osteosclerotic myeloma. Circulating levels of proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) interleukin-1 beta [IL-1 beta], IL-2, IL-6, and interferon-gamma [IFN-gamma]), anti-inflammatory cytokines (transforming g...

The polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M protein, skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare multisystemic disorder associated with osteosclerotic myeloma and multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD). Human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8) DNA sequences have been detected in lymph nodes of about 40% of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative patients with MCD, and in bone marrow stromal cel...

This study directly tested the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity and extrinsic motivation is detrimental. Chosen because they identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing, 72 young adults participated in individual laboratory sessions where they were asked to write 2 brief poems. Before writing the second poem, subjects in an intrinsic orientation...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an uncommon but lethal complication of some connective tissue diseases. We describe two cases of PH associated with plasma cell dyscrasia, with polyneuropathy (P), organomegaly (O), endocrinopathy (E), M protein (P) and skin changes (S) described as POEMS syndrome. Two patients, one female and one male, were hospitalized for dyspnoea. Both had a history of POEMS s...

Glomeruloid hemangioma is characterized by coiled capillary vessels contained within enlarged vascular spaces displaying an architecture that resembles renal glomeruli. The condition is strongly associated with POEMS syndrome (Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal gammopathy and Skin changes). The present paper reports on two cases of glomeruloid hemangiomas associated with P...

Background and purpose: POEMS syndrome (poly­ neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes) is a rare multisystemic disease, which belongs to plasma cell dyscrasia (monoclonal plasma cell proliferative disorder, almost always λ). Bone fractures in patients with POEMS syndrome are rarely described in literature. They are caused by bone lesions, which can be os...

onsi al-haj tended surrealism in the beginning of his poetic life. his surrealistic poems have been told according to the unconsciousness and automatic writing .  so his poems are written with a unconscious style of writing. trusting on unconsciousness by onsi al-haj has influenced on his poems in some aspects. one of these aspects is his language; al-haj's language is an ambiguous languag...

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 ...

Conclusions, and Implications The purpose of this research was to determine whether or not poetry (i.e., poems, ballads, and songs) could be used as a source of knowledge on historic dress in a social, political, or economic context, using the dress of Scottish Highlanders from 1603 through 1830 as an example, and to triangulate the findings with other sources that portray dress through the wri...