Talk:Retinitis pigmentosa
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[edit] "Interesting article"
Here's an interesting article for those involved with this article: "Chip improves vision, baffles scientists" - hope someone can find this useful and incorporate it. violet/riga (t) 21:14, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Section entitled "Treatment"
I have removed the following paragraph from this section:
- "Basic biological research by Bryan W. Jones and Robert E. Marc et. al. appears to indicate through comprehensive studies in human and animal models that retinal changes are dramatic and many current approaches to retinal rescue and prosthetics are based on a flawed and incomplete understanding of retinal degenerative processes. These studies and reviews for the first time are documenting the reality of retinal degenerative events and will better inform approaches to vision rescue strategies."
This information may be "from scientifically peer reviewed and accepted journals" but it is not readily obvious to the average Wiki reader why it should be included here. Please tie-in to the treatment of RP for inclusion. AED 06:01, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Same pictures except colored
I was doing a project on Retinitis Pigmentosa and thought that I could point out that the same pictures on the wikipedia article are available in a colored format at http://blindness.org/content.asp?id=45. If an expert wikipedia has time, please change the images.
[edit] Treatments
While maybe not be considared a treatment per se, I have in the past (and will in the future once finances straiten out.), taken Vitimin A Daily. I belive it is sometming like 15,000 IUs. This slows the degernerative process.
- Actually, you'd probably get liver failure and die. If your body needs A, it'll take it from foods. 71.34.217.109 02:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
The NIH seems to think that taking 15,000 IU's daily of vitamin A may slow the degenerative process : http://www.nei.nih.gov/news/clinicalalerts/alert-rp.asp
[edit] Inflamation?
The name, in particular the -itis suffix, implies that inflammation is involved. What is inflamed? Aaadddaaammm 07:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Links
I don't know how to fix links, but in the second paragraph of the Diagnosis section "autosomal dominant" and "autosomal recessive" would be better links than "dominant" and "recessive". Both already have their own page on Wiki. 70.188.232.151 09:02, 8 March 2007 (UTC)cH
