ICD-10-CM › A00-B99 › A50-A64 › A51.4 Other secondary syphilis › A51.43
Secondary syphilitic oculopathy
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Secondary syphilitic oculopathy
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from the A50-A64 section Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- nonspecific and nongonococcal urethritis (N34.1)
- Reiter's disease (M02.3-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Iritis
- Uveitis
- Cyclitis
- Choroiditis
- Keratoiritis
- Lues, luetic
- Pars planitis
- Uveokeratitis
- Kerato-uveitis
- Neuroretinitis
- Lesion > primary
- Choroidoretinitis
- Lesion > secondary
- Retinitis > luetic
- Lesion > syphilitic
- Uveitis > posterior
- Neurochorioretinitis
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Treponema pallidum infection
- Disease, diseased > syphilitic
- Disease, diseased > eye > syphilitic
- Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
- Infection, infected, infective > specific
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retina
- Syphilis, syphilitic > primary > and secondary
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > syphilis
- Infection, infected, infective > Treponema pallidum
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uveal tract NOS
- Syphilis, syphilitic > early > symptomatic > secondary
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > chorioretinal > cyclitis
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > uveal tract NOS > posterior
- Iritis > syphilitic
- Uveitis > syphilitic
- Retinitis > syphilitic
- Iridocyclitis > syphilitic
- Chorioretinitis > syphilitic
- Iridocyclitis > in > syphilis
- Syphilis, syphilitic > uveitis
- Chorioretinitis > in > syphilis
- Syphilis, syphilitic > uveal tract
Showing 40 of 45 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A51.41 | Secondary syphilitic meningitis | Valid |
| A51.42 | Secondary syphilitic female pelvic disease | Valid |
| A51.44 | Secondary syphilitic nephritis | Valid |
| A51.45 | Secondary syphilitic hepatitis | Valid |
| A51.46 | Secondary syphilitic osteopathy | Valid |
| A51.49 | Other secondary syphilitic conditions | Valid |