User:HawwaMD/sandbox

Geographic Atrophy
Original: Geographic atrophy (also called atrophic AMD) is an advanced form of AMD in which progressive and irreversible loss of retinal cells leads to a loss of visual function.

Geographic atrophy, a late complication of dry AMD is defined by scattered or merged areas of degenerated retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and the overlying light-sensing retinal photoreceptors which are dependent on RPE for trophic support. This leads to irreversible vision loss.

Stages:

Replace the way current staging (early, intermediate, late, dry, wet) criteria is presented in a more palatable manner. I would replace these five categories with No-,Early-, Intermediate, and Advanced-AMD. I would also include specific drusen levels that define each category. Late AMD in this classification would include both wet and dry geographic atrophy forms. (Grouping both of the end-stage presentations (Geographic atrophy and Wet AMD) together gives a more accurate depiction of the realistic endpoints of the disease)

Comments
Thanks for adding your suggestions here. I have a few notes: Great work so far! JenOttawa (talk) 17:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Can you add any more wikilinks? retinal pigment epithelium, photoreceptors, etc If not already linked earlier in the article.
 * Can you please give us a little more info about your "stages" suggestions? You can write in your exact proposed changes and then we can help with formatting, etc.
 * Citations go immediately after the punctuation (no spaces).