Terms & Properties

Preferred Name:  Diabetic Retinopathy

Definition:  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.

NICHD Definition:  Disorder of the retina due to diabetes.

Label:  Diabetic Retinopathy

NCI Thesaurus Code:  C34538 (Search for linked caDSR metadata)   (search value sets)

NCI Metathesaurus Link:  C0011884  (see NCI Metathesaurus info)

Synonyms & Abbreviations: (see Synonym Details)

Diabetic Retinopathy

External Source Codes: 

UMLS CUI

C0011884

Other Properties:

Name	Value (qualifiers indented underneath)
code	C34538
Contributing_Source	Cellosaurus
Contributing_Source	MedDRA
Contributing_Source	NICHD
Legacy Concept Name	Diabetic_Retinopathy
Maps_To	Diabetic retinopathy
	Target_Terminology: MedDRA       Target_Terminology_Version: 18.1       Relationship_to_Target: Has Synonym       Target_Term_Type: LLT       Target_Code: 10012689
Semantic_Type	Disease or Syndrome

Additional Concept Data: 

Defined Fully by Roles: No

URL:https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI_Thesaurus&ns=ncit&code=C34538