Talk:Fatty liver
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[edit] Dissolves?
Should this sentence (found in the Pathology section, first paragraph): "These vesicles are well delineated and optically "empty" because fats solves during tissue processing." read "These vesicles are well delineated and optically "empty" because fats dissolve during tissue processing." ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.63.32.81 (talk) 23:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Merge
What's the difference between Fatty Liver and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease? Should the articles be merged? If they are different, the difference should be listed here
[edit] Natural history
Fatty liver regresses in 50% and is usually due to alcohol: doi:10.1002/hep.21827 JFW | T@lk 23:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merger proposal
Steatohepatitis looks like it's supposed to be the same as fatty liver to this nonspecialist. If they are, in fact, the same thing, then please make the steatohepatitis article a redirect to this one. If they aren't, then please put a note in both articles that explains the difference. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] External links
Wikipedia's external links policy and the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles do not permit the inclusion of external links to non-encyclopedic material, particularly including internet chat boards and e-mail discussion groups. Because I realize that most normal editors haven't spent much time with these policies, please let me provide specific information from the guidelines:
- This page, which applies to all articles in the entire encyclopedia, says that links "to social networking sites (such as MySpace or Fan sites), discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), USENET newsgroups or e-mail lists" and also "blogs" are to be avoided.
- This page deprecates ""helpful" external links, such as forums, self-help groups and local charities."
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while it may occasionally be useful to patients or their families, it is not a web directory for support groups. Please do not re-insert links that do not conform to the standard rules. Any editor, BTW, is welcome to read all of the rules and perform an "audit" in the remaining links. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
