09Diseases of the visual system Disorders of the visual pathways or centres 9C40Disorder of the optic nerve 9C40.4Ischaemic optic neuropathy
9C40.41
category
Posterior ischemic optic neuropathy
Definition This refers to posterior ischemic damage to the optic nerve due to any cause. Damage and death of these nerve cells, or neurons, leads to characteristic features of optic neuropathy.
Also indexed as
Arteritic posterior ischemic optic neuropathy Idiopathic non-arteritic posterior ischemic optic neuropathy Non-arteritic posterior ischemic optic neuropathy Posterior ischemic optic neuropathy Secondary non-arteritic posterior ischemic optic neuropathy
Nearby in Ischaemic optic neuropathy
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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