ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I74 Arterial embolism and thrombosis › I74.4
Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of extremities, unspecified
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 Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of extremities, unspecified
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 I74 Arterial embolism and thrombosis
Excludes2 - not included here
- atheroembolism (I75.-)
- basilar embolism and thrombosis (I63.0-I63.2, I65.1)
- carotid embolism and thrombosis (I63.0-I63.2, I65.2)
- cerebral embolism and thrombosis (I63.3-I63.5, I66.-)
- coronary embolism and thrombosis (I21-I25)
- mesenteric embolism and thrombosis (K55.0-)
- ophthalmic embolism and thrombosis (H34.-)
- precerebral embolism and thrombosis NOS (I63.0-I63.2, I65.9)
- pulmonary embolism and thrombosis (I26.-)
- renal embolism and thrombosis (N28.0)
- retinal embolism and thrombosis (H34.-)
- septic embolism and thrombosis (I76)
- vertebral embolism and thrombosis (I63.0-I63.2, I65.0)
Code first
- embolism and thrombosis complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.2)
- embolism and thrombosis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O88.-)
Includes
- embolic infarction
- embolic occlusion
- thrombotic infarction
- thrombotic occlusion
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
- 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 > retinal
- Infarct, infarction > brain
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > senile
- Embolism > artery > ophthalmic
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > capillary
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > general
- Atheroma, atheromatous > artery
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > vascular
- Stenosis, stenotic > artery NEC
- Infarct, infarction > cerebellar
Showing 40 of 82 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I74.0 | Embolism and thrombosis of abdominal aorta | Not billable |
| I74.1 | Embolism and thrombosis of other and unspecified parts of aorta | Not billable |
| I74.2 | Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of the upper extremities | Valid |
| I74.3 | Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of the lower extremities | Valid |
| I74.5 | Embolism and thrombosis of iliac artery | Valid |
| I74.8 | Embolism and thrombosis of other arteries | Valid |
| I74.9 | Embolism and thrombosis of unspecified artery | Valid |