ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H30-H36 › H34.82 Venous engorgement › H34.829
Venous engorgement, unspecified eye
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 Venous engorgement, unspecified eye
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 H34 Retinal vascular occlusions
Excludes1 - never coded here
- amaurosis fugax (G45.3)
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.
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Engorgement > venous, retina
- Thrombosis, thrombotic > eye
- Infarct, infarction > cerebellar
- Thrombosis, thrombotic > ophthalmic
- Occlusion, occluded > vein > retinal
- Thrombosis, thrombotic > retina, retinal
- Occlusion, occluded > retina, retinal > vein > engorgement
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H34.821 | Venous engorgement, right eye | Valid |
| H34.822 | Venous engorgement, left eye | Valid |
| H34.823 | Venous engorgement, bilateral | Valid |