9B71.01
category
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Definition
This is proliferative retinopathy (damage to the retina) caused by complications of diabetes, which can eventually lead to blindness. It is an ocular manifestation of diabetes, a systemic disease, which affects up to 80 percent of all patients who have had diabetes for 10 years or more.
Coding note
Always assign an additional code for the type of diabetes mellitus.
Also indexed as
Diabetes mellitus, independent of type with proliferative retinopathyProliferative diabetic macular oedemaProliferative diabetic retinopathyProliferative diabetic retinopathy due to drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitusProliferative diabetic retinopathy with combined rhegmatogenous and tractional retinal detachmentProliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular oedema due to drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitusProliferative diabetic retinopathy with tractional retinal detachment, macula involvedProliferative diabetic retinopathy with tractional retinal detachment, macula not involvedProliferative diabetic retinopathy with vitreous haemorrhageProliferative diabetic retinopathy without macular oedema due to drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitusProliferative diabetic retinopathy, macular oedema apparently absent