We report a case of a 38-year-old man presenting with bilateral lower extremity weakness and paresthesias that progressed during a 4-month period to severe polyneuropathy forcing the patient to be bed bound. Throughout his multiple hospitalizations, he was treated erroneously for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, without significant improvement in his symptoms. In addition, he ...

â  â  â  â  abul-atahiya: his life and poems â  â mohammad ali otroshi shahreza * â  hossein kiani ** â  â abstract â abul-atahiya was born and grown up in kufa-iraq, a city chosen as the central city by shias and the abbasid dynasty publicized their government there. he lived in a period which slander was common so he kept company with adulterous people and acted dishonorably. he started compo...

qaisar aminpour is a post-revolution prominent poet who has composed poems in different fields and verse forms. he has composed 445 adult poems in five collections, the analysis of which seems necessary for gaining an exact understanding of the trend of the post-revolution poetry. in this article, the author, studying the titles of qaisar's poems in his five books, has tried to offer a new read...

you can find the name of nile river in most of the poetic collections in egypt and sudan. the beauty of this river occupies and captivates the mind of poets. therefore the poets write their best poems especially about this river. poems which have special style with a divine structure, strong words, beautiful glossary and worthy concepts. one of the most famous man among the poets is abdullah al...

poet does not use prefabricated or preplanned words in his or her mid but he uses too much care in selecting and using his words or language. afterwards, s/he reorders it in terms of his or her chosen symbolic indications and he might innovates new scheme for him or herself, after a long reflection and rethinking so that he achieves his or her reader’s hope and interest in reaching the unforese...

POEMS syndrome is an acronym for polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes, which is a rare paraneoplastic disease of monoclonal plasma cells. A mandatory criterion to diagnose POEMS syndrome is the presence of a monoclonal plasma cell dyscrasia in which plasma cell leukemia is the most aggressive form. Early identification of the features of the POEMS...

RATIONALE POEMS syndrome is a rare multi-system disorder, which sometimes involves the kidney. Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (ITG) is an uncommon glomerular disease resulted from deposits of immunoglobulins and its derivatives. ITG caused by POEMS syndrome is rarely reported. PATIENT CONCERNS A 63-year-old man was presented with acute kidney injury. In addition, it's found that he had abnormal...

OBJECTIVE To find out if Shakespeare, famed for his insights into human nature, is exceptional in how much his characters express grief through somatic symptoms and signs, and by physical illness. METHODS The texts of all large-scale works currently attributed to Shakespeare (39 plays, 3 long narrative poems) were systematically searched for bodily changes and for evidence of grief as dominat...