ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G40-G47 › G45 Transient cerebral ischemic... › G45.3
Amaurosis fugax
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 Amaurosis fugax
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 G45 Transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes
Excludes1 - never coded here
- neonatal cerebral ischemia (P91.0)
- transient retinal artery occlusion (H34.0-)
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.
- Amaurosis > fugax
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G45.0 | Vertebro-basilar artery syndrome | Valid |
| G45.1 | Carotid artery syndrome (hemispheric) | Valid |
| G45.2 | Multiple and bilateral precerebral artery syndromes | Valid |
| G45.4 | Transient global amnesia | Valid |
| G45.8 | Other transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes | Valid |
| G45.9 | Transient cerebral ischemic attack, unspecified | Valid |