Talk:Glomerulonephritis
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[edit] Merge nephritis
Quote from emedicine: "Nephritis is an older term used to clinically denote a child with hypertension, decreased renal function, hematuria, and edema. Technically, nephritis suggests a noninfectious inflammatory process involving the nephron; glomerulonephritis (GN) generally is a more precise term." --WS 21:52, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
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- I oppose the merge, but I've added a "Subtypes" section to Nephritis, which could help provide clarification. Wikipedia already had a pyelonephritis page, so I added that to the list too. --Arcadian 22:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
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- Ok, that is a quick answer. I removed the notices on top of the articles. --WS 22:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
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Shouldn't nephrotic syndromes (such as minimal change and focal glomerulosclerosis) be separated - either in a separate article or in a separate section of this article - from nephritic syndromes aka glomerulonephritis? Moreoever, given the material - the heading of glomerulonephritis is inexact and misleading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.229.67.200 (talk) 00:33, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Language
Can someone simplify the language in this article? I can hardly understand it, and it looks like it was copied out of a scientific journal. SCHZMO ✍ 21:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Seconded 69.181.120.218 07:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Thirded. Many people are going to be looking this up wanting to know real world information such as how you know you have it (bubbles in the water when you urinate from the excreted albumin), what treatment is, outlook, how you get it etc. I think that info is much more useful than the specific medical backround. Anybody who wants to know the medical specifics most likely already has the knoweldge of knowing how to look that stuff up. -Ryan Rjkd12 22:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External Link
User: Beetstra has removed my external link as he has stated it does not follow Wikipedia guidelines. Wikipedia guidelines state that: "Wikipedia articles can include links to Web pages outside Wikipedia. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article (such as reviews and interviews)".
I believe that information found at the UNC Kidney Center on glomerular diseases is beneficial to Wiki readers as it related glomerular disease and glomerulonephritis in a "patient-friendly" way. Please feel free to visit and see for yourself: http://unckidneycenter.org/patients/glom_disease.htm. I would appreciate any feedback.
--Unckc 21:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)Unckc
