ICD-11 classes
09 Diseases of the visual system
Disorders of the eyeball - posterior segment
Disorders of the retina
9B75 — Macular disorders
9B75.0 — Age-related macular degeneration
ICD-11 9B75.0 — Age-related macular degeneration
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.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
Diagnosis with code 9B75.0 contains 7 clarifying diagnoses:
- 9B75.00 — Early age-related macular degeneration
- 9B75.01 — Intermediate age-related macular degeneration
- 9B75.03 — Atrophic late-stage age-related macular degeneration
- 9B75.04 — Neovascular late-stage age-related macular degeneration
- MC20.1 — Small drusen of the macula
- 9B75.0Y — Other specified age-related macular degeneration
- 9B75.0Z — Age-related macular degeneration, unspecified
The diagnosis is included in 1 another class.
- Small drusen of the macula (MC20.1)