• 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.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• A complication of diabetes that occurs when the small blood vessels in the retina are damaged. It can impair vision or even lead to blindness.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• Disease of the RETINA as a complication of DIABETES MELLITUS. It is characterized by the progressive microvascular complications, such as ANEURYSM, interretinal EDEMA, and intraocular PATHOLOGIC NEOVASCULARIZATION.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• Disorder of the retina due to diabetes.
  NICHD Pediatric Terminology
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Retinal changes occurring in diabetes mellitus, marked by microaneurysms, exudates, and hemorrhages, and sometimes by neovascularization.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Manifestations of diabetic retinopathy include microaneurysms, intraretinal hemorrhage, exudates, macular edema, macular ischemia, neovascularization, vitreous hemorrhage, and traction retinal detachment. Symptoms may not develop until late in the disease. Diagnosis is by funduscopy; further details are elucidated by color fundus...
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
• Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major medical problem throughout the world. Diabetes causes an array of long-term systemic complications that have considerable impact on the patient as well as society, as the disease typically affects individuals in their most productive years.
  Medscape
  WebMD, 2019
• Diabetic retinopathy (die-uh-BET-ik ret-ih-NOP-uh-thee) is a diabetes complication that affects eyes. It's caused by damage to the blood vessels of the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (retina).
  Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• Diabetic retinopathy is the retinal consequence of chronic progressive diabetic microvascular leakage and occlusion. It eventually occurs to some degree in all patients with diabetes mellitus. There are two types: nonproliferative and proliferative. Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) is the early stage of the disease and is...
  Epocrates
  Athenahealth, Inc., 2019