ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I60-I69 › I63.03 Cerebral infarction due to... › I63.033
I63.033
Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of bilateral carotid arteries
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 2017 to now.
- FY2017 Added to the code set Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of bilateral carotid arteries
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 I63 Cerebral infarction
Excludes1 - never coded here
- neonatal cerebral infarction (P91.82-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- chronic, without residual deficits (sequelae) (Z86.73)
- sequelae of cerebral infarction (I69.3-)
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, to identify status post administration of tPA (rtPA) in a different facility within the last 24 hours prior to admission to current facility (Z92.82)
- code, if known, to indicate National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (R29.7-)
Includes
- occlusion and stenosis of cerebral and precerebral arteries, resulting in cerebral infarction
Inherited from the I60-I69 section Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)
Use additional code
- code to identify presence of:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- hypertension (I10-I1A)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
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.
- Angiospasm
- Arteriolith
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Embolism > carotid
- Hardening > artery
- Vasospasm > retina
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Hollenhorst's plaque
- Stroke > cryptogenic
- Arteritis > deformans
- Body, bodies > cytoid
- Embolism > ophthalmic
- Endarteritis > senile
- Ossification > artery
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Plaque > Hollenhorst's
- Microembolism > retinal
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
- Plaque > artery, arterial
- Disease, diseased > artery
- Embolism > retina, retinal
- Embolism > artery > carotid
- Embolism > artery > retinal
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Narrowing > artery > carotid
- Stricture > artery > carotid
- Embolism > precerebral artery
- Occlusion, occluded > carotid
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > senile
- Embolism > artery > ophthalmic
Showing 40 of 95 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I63.031 | Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of right carotid artery | Valid |
| I63.032 | Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of left carotid artery | Valid |
| I63.039 | Cerebral infarction due to thrombosis of unspecified carotid artery | Valid |