ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I77.81 Aortic ectasia › I77.819
Aortic ectasia, unspecified site
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 2011 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.
- FY2011 Added to the draft code set draft Aortic ectasia, unspecified site
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 I77 Other disorders of arteries and arterioles
Excludes2 - not included here
- collagen (vascular) diseases (M30-M36)
- hypersensitivity angiitis (M31.0)
- pulmonary artery (I28.-)
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.
- Aortectasia
- Widening aorta
- Dilated, dilation
- Dilatation > aorta
- Ectasia, ectasis > aorta
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I77.810 | Thoracic aortic ectasia | Valid |
| I77.811 | Abdominal aortic ectasia | Valid |
| I77.812 | Thoracoabdominal aortic ectasia | Valid |