Catalog
Age-related macular degeneration
Link to WHO Definition
Age-related macular degeneration – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1514301548
Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is defined as an ocular disease leading to loss of central vision in the elderly, and characterised by primary and secondary damage of macular retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, resulting in formation of drusen (deposits lying beneath the RPE), choroidal neovascularization (CNV), and atrophy of photoreceptors and choriocapillaris layer of the choroidea.
Parents
Children
- 9B75.00 Early age-related macular degeneration
- 9B75.03 Atrophic late-stage age-related macular degeneration
- 9B75.01 Intermediate age-related macular degeneration
- Late-stage age-related macular degeneration
- Atrophic senile macular degeneration
- 9B75.04 Neovascular late-stage age-related macular degeneration
- MC20.1 Small drusen of the macula