A chronic, pathological complication associated with diabetes mellitus, where retinal damages are incurred due to microaneurysms in the vasculature of the retina, progressively leading to abnormal blood vessel growth, and swelling and leaking of fluid from blood vessels, resulting in vision loss or blindness. [ NCIT:P378 ]
Synonyms: retinal abnormality - diabetes-related
Term information
- MEDGEN:3786 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C0011884 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- MESH:D003930 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- EFO:0003770 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- ICD9:362.0 (EFO:0003770)
- SCTID:4855003 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- DOID:8947 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- NCIT:C34538 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
otar
http://identifiers.org/mesh/D003930
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_8947
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C34538
http://identifiers.org/snomedct/4855003
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0011884
http://identifiers.org/medgen/3786