ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I72 Other aneurysm › I72.1

I72.1

Aneurysm of artery of upper extremity

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Aneurysm of artery of upper extremity

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 I72 Other aneurysm

Excludes2 - not included here

  • acquired aneurysm (I77.0)
  • aneurysm (of) aorta (I71.-)
  • aneurysm (of) arteriovenous NOS (Q27.3-)
  • carotid artery dissection (I77.71)
  • cerebral (nonruptured) aneurysm (I67.1)
  • coronary aneurysm (I25.4)
  • coronary artery dissection (I25.42)
  • dissection of artery NEC (I77.79)
  • dissection of precerebral artery, congenital (nonruptured) (Q28.1)
  • heart aneurysm (I25.3)
  • iliac artery dissection (I77.72)
  • precerebral artery, congential (nonruptured) (Q28.1)
  • pulmonary artery aneurysm (I28.1)
  • renal artery dissection (I77.73)
  • retinal aneurysm (H35.0)
  • ruptured cerebral aneurysm (I60.7)
  • varicose aneurysm (I77.0)
  • vertebral artery dissection (I77.74)

Includes

  • aneurysm (cirsoid) (false) (ruptured)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
I72.0 Aneurysm of carotid artery Valid
I72.2 Aneurysm of renal artery Valid
I72.3 Aneurysm of iliac artery Valid
I72.4 Aneurysm of artery of lower extremity Valid
I72.5 Aneurysm of other precerebral arteries Valid
I72.6 Aneurysm of vertebral artery Valid
I72.8 Aneurysm of other specified arteries Valid
I72.9 Aneurysm of unspecified site Valid