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Descriptor English: Macular Degeneration
Descriptor Spanish: Degeneración Macular
Descriptor degeneración macular
Entry term(s) maculopatía
maculopatía relacionada con la edad
Scope note: Cambios degenerativos en la RETINA, generalmente en adultos de edad avanzada que da lugar a pérdida de la visión en el centro del campo visual (la MÁCULA LÚTEA) por lesión de la retina. Existen formas seca y húmeda.
Descriptor Portuguese: Degeneração Macular
Descriptor French: Dégénérescence maculaire
Entry term(s): Age Related Macular Degeneration
Age Related Maculopathies
Age Related Maculopathy
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Age-Related Macular Degenerations
Age-Related Maculopathies
Age-Related Maculopathy
Degeneration, Macular
Dystrophy, Macular
Macular Degeneration, Age Related
Macular Degeneration, Age-Related
Macular Degenerations
Macular Dystrophies
Macular Dystrophy
Maculopathies
Maculopathies, Age-Related
Maculopathy
Maculopathy, Age Related
Maculopathy, Age-Related
Tree number(s): C11.768.585.439
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008268
Scope note: Degenerative changes in the RETINA usually of older adults which results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the MACULA LUTEA) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Retinal Degeneration (1970-1978)
Public MeSH Note: 79; was see under RETINAL DEGENERATION 1970-78
Online Note: search RETINAL DEGENERATION 1970-74
History Note: 79(75); was see under RETINAL DEGENERATION 1970-78
Related: Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy MeSH
DeCS ID: 8440
Unique ID: D008268
NLM Classification: WW 270
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1979/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/04/29
Macular Degeneration - Preferred
Concept UI M0012875
Scope note Degenerative changes in the RETINA usually of older adults which results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the MACULA LUTEA) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms.
Preferred term Macular Degeneration
Entry term(s) Degeneration, Macular
Dystrophy, Macular
Macular Degenerations
Macular Dystrophies
Macular Dystrophy
Maculopathies
Maculopathy
Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Narrower
Concept UI M000647189
Preferred term Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Entry term(s) Age Related Macular Degeneration
Age Related Maculopathies
Age Related Maculopathy
Age-Related Macular Degenerations
Age-Related Maculopathies
Age-Related Maculopathy
Macular Degeneration, Age Related
Macular Degeneration, Age-Related
Maculopathies, Age-Related
Maculopathy, Age Related
Maculopathy, Age-Related



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