Talk:Corneal ulcer

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Contents 1 Human or Animal Medical Condition? 2 Refractory corneal ulcers 3 Renaming 4 Article creation relevant to humans 5 Weird phrasing in the opening

[edit] Human or Animal Medical Condition?

Is this page about a condition that afflicts humans or dogs? It mentions humas briefly at the beginning, but the rest of the article seems to be vetinary in nature. --Corinthian 00:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Corneal ulcers affect humans, dogs, and other animals. A veterinarian was largely responsible for the creation of this article. -AED 00:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and added a disambiguation to the start of the article, pointing toward corneal abrasion, which discusses corneal ulcers in humans. --Joelmills 03:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Abrasions and ulcers are two different things. Both can affect humans and non-human species. -AED 04:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

They both involve loss of the epithelium, but I guess the definition of corneal ulcers also includes deeper loss of corneal tissue. As far as I know, most of the veterinary community uses the term corneal ulcer when referring to any loss of corneal epithelium. How is a corneal ulcer different than a corneal abrasion in human ophthalmology terminology? Either way it works out, with the significant differences in causes and treatment, I think it is convenient to keep the articles separate. --Joelmills 00:14, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Abrasion implies physical or mechanical disruption of the epithelium, whereas ulcer implies an inflammatory cause. I would suggest expanding both articles to reflect that each occurs in human and veterinary medicine. AED 00:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. --Joelmills 01:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Refractory corneal ulcers

This is not a synonym for recurrent corneal abrasion or erosion, which is what the author (capably) describes. Because infectious corneal ulcers have a different etiology and are so treated from corneal erosions, this material should be moved out of the ulcer topic.Bticho 18:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming

I think I'm going to be bold and rename this article Corneal ulcers in animals. There is still very little about the human aspect of the condition except for the infobox and a bit about culturing. For now corneal ulcer can redirect here, until someone wants to write an article about the human disease. I know we discussed this earlier and it was decided to keep corneal ulcer and corneal abrasion and their respective human and veterinary information separate, but in veterinary medicine the term corneal ulcer is used whether or not the etiology is inflammatory or traumatic. I don't know who started that trend, but that's the way it is. My concern is that this article is going to confuse anyone looking for information on the human condition. I'll wait a few days for discussion before moving it. --Joelmills 00:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article creation relevant to humans

Thanks for letting me know at the WP:Eye talk pages for the Wikiproject on Ophthalmology. I have removed information concerning the animals, which is appropriately contained in Corneal ulcers in animals. I will try to find some pictures for the article. I need some help with the creation of infobox and referencing, along with general proofreading for grammatical errors thay may have inadvertently crept in. Anybody?! EyeMD ^T|C 13:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weird phrasing in the opening

particularly in these sentences:

In developing countries, as well as in Florida, corneal ulcer is frequently the cause of great morbidity as well as economic loss to the person and family. Children afflicted by Vitamin A deficiency are at high risk for corneal ulcer and may become blind in both eyes, which may persist lifelong, causing tremendous & avoidable loss to the person and the society.

Doesn't sound like something you would see when researching information on a medical condition.