ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I70.9 Other and unspecified atherosclerosis › I70.90
Unspecified atherosclerosis
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 Unspecified atherosclerosis
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 I70 Atherosclerosis
Excludes2 - not included here
- arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (I25.1-)
- arteriosclerotic heart disease (I25.1-)
- atheroembolism (I75.-)
- cerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
- coronary atherosclerosis (I25.1-)
- mesenteric atherosclerosis (K55.1)
- precerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
- primary pulmonary atherosclerosis (I27.0)
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Includes
- arteriolosclerosis
- arterial degeneration
- arteriosclerosis
- arteriosclerotic vascular disease
- arteriovascular degeneration
- atheroma
- endarteritis deformans or obliterans
- senile arteritis
- senile endarteritis
- vascular degeneration
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.
- Worn out
- Lassitude
- Arteriolith
- Malfunction
- Mesarteritis
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Crisis > heart
- Storm, thyroid
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Paresis > heart
- Toxic > thyroid
- Thromboarteritis
- Acropachy, thyroid
- Acropathy, thyroid
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Hardening > artery
- Thyrotoxic > storm
- Myasthenia > cordis
- Thyrotoxic > crisis
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Fatigue > myocardium
- Arteritis > deformans
- Endarteritis > senile
- Low > output syndrome
- Ossification > artery
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Calcification > medial
- Sudden > heart failure
- Thyrotoxicosis > heart
- Apathetic thyroid storm
- Destruction, destructive
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
Showing 40 of 137 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I70.91 | Generalized atherosclerosis | Valid |
| I70.92 | Chronic total occlusion of artery of the extremities | Valid |