Talk:Pulmonary shunt

Suggestions for improvement

I may have a pulmonary shunt; that is a shunt that is not in the heart, that causes me to be chronically short of breath. I came to this article to learn how such a shunt functions; how it might develop, or be aggravated (my symptoms worsened suddenly a few years ago); and hopefully, how it could be treated. I have a good education, as an old English teacher with a good science/biology background, and a Ph.D. in psychology, but I really can’t seem to learn anything from this article. There is an excess of specialized vocabulary and the specialized terms are not defined or explained within the text. The absence of diagrams leaves the text without reference points. I occasionally post things equivalent to the above on the Talk pages of technical articles, and it seems to me, as a person who has read Wikipedia since it began, that these issues, of overly technical vocabulary and poor ability to be informative to the layperson, are becoming more common in such articles. Many of them can only be understood by an expert in the relevant field. Janice Vian, Ph.D. (talk) 03:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

It is worse than that. Some of the information appears to be factually incorrect. Possibly due to a fundamental misunderstanding of some concepts of fluid mechanics by a previous editor, and possibly by inadvertent misrepresentation of the content of some of the sources cited, but I do not have assess to some of the sources, so will try to find alternatives. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

This article would be greatly improved if it included discussion of pulmonary shunting during intensive exercise, by healthy athletes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.191.213.116 (talk) 14:28, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Good point, I will see if I can find a suitable source. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)