ICD-10-CM › H00-H59 › H53-H54 › H53.12 Transient visual loss › H53.123
H53.123
Transient visual loss, bilateral
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 Transient visual loss, bilateral
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.
- Blind
- Amaurosis
- Asymmetry
- Eyestrain
- Loss > sight
- Strain > eye NEC
- Distortion > visual
- Tear, torn > muscle
- Tear, torn > tendon
- Blindness > transient
- Elongated, elongation
- Vision, visual > loss
- Aberration > distantial
- Rupture, ruptured > muscle
- Rupture, ruptured > tendon
- Rupture, ruptured > muscle > traumatic
- Annular > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Sacculation > organ or site, congenital
- Low > vision > one eye > other eye blind
- Tortuous > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Curvature > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Dilatation > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Loss > vision, visual > specified as blindness
- Rupture, ruptured > traumatic > muscle or tendon
- Diverticulum, diverticula > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Short, shortening, shortness > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Irregular, irregularity > shape, organ or site, congenital NEC
- Scotoma > scintillating
- Loss > vision, visual > subjective > transient
- Disturbance > vision, visual > subjective > loss > transient
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| H53.121 | Transient visual loss, right eye | Valid |
| H53.122 | Transient visual loss, left eye | Valid |
| H53.129 | Transient visual loss, unspecified eye | Valid |