ICD-11 MMS

09 Diseases of the visual system

Disorders of the eyeball - posterior segment  (9B50-9C0Z)

Disorders of the retina  (9B70-9B7Z)

9B75 Macular disorders

Age-related macular degeneration

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01


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.

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