OBJECTIVES To investigate skin manifestations of the polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome and their correlation with serum vascular endothelial growth factor (s-VEGF-A) levels and to describe the impact of autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (aPBSCT) on these manifestations and the correlation with s-VEGF-A leve...

In this article, the aim of the authors is to study the role of repetition in creating music and parallelism in Nimayee poems in the three collections of poems by Mehdi Akhavan Sales: Zamestan, Akhere Shahname and Az Avesta. Accordingly, the researchers have investigated the various manners of repetition in creating parallelism in the poems at three levels: phonological parallelism, lexical par...

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...

characterized by polyneuropathy (P), organomegaly (O), endocrinopathy (E), monoclonal gammopathy (M) and skin abnormalities (S)5. POEMS syndrome is a rare disease, since its prevalence, although still not well defined, has been estimated to be < 1% in cases of monoclonal gammopathies1,3. However, the true prevalence of POEMS syndrome may be underestimated, since no single test establishes the d...

POEMS syndrome is a clinical unit with a very heterogenous clinical behavior. Its diagnostics as well as monitoring are not easy and depend on clinician ́s experience. We present three case reports of patients with POEMS syndrome with different clinical manifestation and course of the disease. Our presentation demonstrates the benefit of the use of biochemical parameter VEGF (vascular endothelia...

BACKGROUND Polyneuropathy organomegaly endocrinopathy M-protein skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare cause of polyneuropathy. Calciphylaxis, a severe disease leading to necrotic ulcers of the skin, is associated with POEMS syndrome and also with renal disease. This case report describes a patient with POEMS syndrome plus primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. CASE PRESENTATION A 27-ye...

palestinian woman poets have frequently used mythical concepts, especially those of god&apos;s messengers, in their poems, and they have sometimes been inspired by these myths. although myths have ancient origins, they endow the contemporary poet&apos;s thoughts with a deep scope, while, at the same time, the poet reprocesses them and give them the present day flavour. therefore, most poems by ...