Talk:Persistent fetal vasculature

On the Recent Restoration of this Page

Good day Wikipedia! I thank you, my dear reader, for your time.

This page has (with no disrespect intended) been in a state of extensive disrepair for the past seven years, as a result of PFV's relative obscurity as a condition, and the lack of general public interest in rare nonfatal disorders. As someone who has suffered from this condition all my life, information has always been scarce, and when available, quite difficult to access or understand with a layman's perspective and background. Unfortunately, PFV is also quite rare, even within the impaired community. I have never actually met anyone else with the condition, and known only a limited number of ophthalmologists with the relevant experience and education to offer meaningful professional insight. In light of this, I have taken it upon myself to improve the quality and caliber of this page, both for public education and especially for the aid of those whose vision has also been impaired by PFV, in the hopes of providing an awareness and launchpad I wish I (and those I love) had access to in the past.

What was presented within the prior stub has been preserved, barring demands in clarification. I have added a significant volume of information, sourced whenever possible from peer reviewed publications, though in a very limited number of instances at need drew on my own lived experience as someone with visual impairment from PFV. I am college educated but not a medical professional, or in any fashion an ophthalmologist; as a result, I excerpted the Differential Diagnostic, and generally avoided paraphrase of the technical anatomy of the anomalies caused by PFV, as I did not trust my ability to replicate them faithfully. If you are aware of any peer reviewed studies, case- or otherwise, on unilateral PFV prognosis, the outcomes of patching, certain surgical specifics, or non-pilot analyses of PFV's frequency, I urge you to edit this article to reflect it. Likewise, if I made any errors or misinterpretations as a result of my "hobbyist" background reading medical literature, please amend my mistakes. You have my profound thanks.

As a matter of business: I renamed the article and added two associate redirections; one for the PFV disambiguation, and one for the original page name, PHPV. All referential citations should be in good order, with the exception of precise publication months in select examples. Wikimedia commons restrictions on image ownership prevent the addition of anatomical diagrams (and none exist beyond published works, naturally). For the curious, several such diagrams, alongside other technical data and anatomical descriptors, can be found among my references. Additionally, I have placed external links to EyeWiki, whose article is the current cornerstone of a layman's comprehension of PFV, as well as two additional bio pages for noted figures in the study of PFV who lack local wiki-equivalents. If this is inappropriate for a medical page, feel free to remove the inclusions.

If you (hopefully) deem appropriate, please strip this page from the "stub" classification. I removed the intertextual banner, but have not removed the categorization itself.

I hope my work meets the high bar of quality this website is famed for, and satisfies the interest of those looking to learn more about this condition. Please do not hesitate to reach out for comments, questions, etc. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely yours,

EyeHaveABadEye EyeHaveABadEye (talk) 23:09, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Great work! I'm totally blind, am kind of in to medicine, and had never heard of this condition until encountering this video that mentioned it. I've copyedited it and changed it per Wikipedia guidelines; I hope it's all still OK. I've changed the classification to C because that's kinda my default for any good comprehensive article. I've put it on my watchlist so I can keep an eye on it, so to speak, since it's such a rare condition. Graham87 15:50, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

I've fixed the capitalisation of the article because we generally prefer sentence case for things that aren't titles. It took me a while to figure out that this article was miscapitalised because that sort of thing can be hard to tell with my screen reader. The history of the old article that was here and its talk page can be found at Persistent Fetal Vasculature and Talk:Persistent Fetal Vasculature, respectively. Graham87 18:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC)