Talk:Neutropenia

Expanded the article and included simpler way to explain certain topics did not remove any text

Expanded the article and did not remove any text. Inserted exlinks on the links page.

Mary Ash 20:23, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

External Link to The Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry Will Not Work

Could someone fix the link to the above site. I tried without success. Thanks! Mary Ash 05:36, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Some edits, primarily flow and reference

I did some reference work, both in terms of internal wikilinking and source references. In general, the preference is to refer to specific sources as citations, not narrative descriptions in text unless there is no alternative.

In some cases, I changed the capitalization or precise terminology so it would match the wikilink. The primary authority on these is Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), with a few variations:

• General CZ style is initial cap only other than proper names. It's more difficult for a name widely used as an acronym; different authors have different styles and we need to standardize. Since searching is case-sensitive, lots of redirects help.
• MeSH often uses things like "general, more specific", where we avoid commas and would tend to use "specific general".
• MeSH also tends to put plurals on things that aren't really collective nouns, which we avoid.

I'll check into the link to the registry, or, alternatively, to journal sources. While we'll use a clearly reviewed and stable secondary source such as eMedicine or the Merck Manual, we tend to avoid sourcing wikis unless the reference is to a stable and reviewed/non-anonymous contribution.

Things will flow better, I think, if the general description of an absolute neutrophil count moves to the lede paragraph; the computation and example could be below or in its own article.

I've been trying to generalize a number of articles to include veterinary medicine -- on a very personal level, ANC has been one of the primary factors used to schedule my feline associate's chemotherapy for feline squamous cell carcinoma.

Thanks!

--Howard C. Berkowitz 11:06, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

The registry is THE source concerning this condition. It is located at the University of Washington which has a long history of researching blood conditions such as leukemia and neutropenia. It would be great if you could get the link to work as I used it as a primary source for this article. Thanks!Mary Ash 14:50, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Noticed your comments about your feline associate. I"m sorry. Neutropenia can affect our pet for various reasons. My three feline associates, although aging, are doing very well. The only one with significant medical problems is my old brown tabby Andy who suffers from chronic kidney problems. I cook up his chicken and rice cat food a couple times a week. Mary Ash 15:03, 30 July 2010 (UTC)MA