Talk:Potter sequence

message: This is the first (!) sentence of Potter syndrome:
"Potter syndrome is a term used to describe a typical physical appearance which is due to a dramatically decreased amniotic fluid volume, oligohydramnios or absent amniotic fluid, anhydramnios secondary to renal diseases such as bilateral renal agenesis (BRA)."
PLEASE! <KF> 12:15, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
: JFW | T@lk 23:37, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, remember the days when you were a six-year-old? Do you remember how much medical knowledge you had at the time? Well, that would equal mine at this point in time. Whatever I know about medicine I know from the patient's point of view, and if I'm not mistaken I'm not likely to develop Potter syndrome. That's about all I could figure out. I have been fixing all kinds of articles, but I know my limits. That's the reason for my appeal to the scientific community. All the best, <KF> 00:15, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
KF,
I'm sorry that you didn't find the article informative. I can see your point and I feel that you are probably not the only one who feels this way. I will make appropriate changes to the article in order to clarify the matter. Thank you for your input.
--Jasonclk 13:49, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I've added the technical tag here, the content is very inaccessible to anybody without pre-knowledge of the syndrome or a sufficiently detailed medical background. It is probable that people directly or indirectly affected will be visiting this page. They will be of differing ages, educational levels and social backgrounds, and not necessarily able to follow the article in it's current form.
I'd suggest a review of the article vs. WP:MEDMOS, whilst I'm not suggesting that any of the content should be removed, a more physically descriptive introduction and summary using fewer technical terms would benefit this a lot. Some images/illustrations would also aid understanding but I would not want this to become a freakshow.
In particular I think it needs a common language description of how the syndrome manifests, is identified, and clarification on it's affects to the foetus (and possible physical/social/practical effects to parents). For instance it is not clear to me as a layman if it is always fatal, or, if not, produces visible effects at birth.
EasyTarget 09:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Making this article even more accessible

message: Although this is often referred to as a "syndrome," technically, it is a sequence.  Potter syndrome should redirect to this page, but Wikipedia doesn't need to be contribute to misuse of terms.
From Robbins "Pathologic Basis of Disease" 7th edition, p. 471-472 -- a sequence is "a pattern of cascade anomalies," whereas a syndrome is "a constellation of congenital anomalies believed to be pathologically related, that, in contrast to a sequence, cannot be explained on the basis of a single, localized, initiating defect."
Potter sequence has a single defect...oligohydramnios.  Oligohydramnios may be caused by a variety of different things, such as amniotic fluid leakage from rupture of the amnion, uteroplacental insufficiency or renal agenesis, but the resulting phenotype is caused by fetal compression resulting from oligohydramnios. Mba123 (talk) 04:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "Potter Sequence"