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.

code elsewhere

• Small drusen of the macula  (MC20.1)

sections/codes in this section (9B75.0-9B75.0)

• Early age-related macular degeneration  (9B75.00)
• Intermediate age-related macular degeneration  (9B75.01)
• Atrophic late-stage age-related macular degeneration  (9B75.03)
• Neovascular late-stage age-related macular degeneration  (9B75.04)
• Other specified age-related macular degeneration  (9B75.0Y)
• Age-related macular degeneration, unspecified  (9B75.0Z)

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