ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I79 Disorders of arteries, arterioles... › I79.0
I79.0
Aneurysm of aorta in diseases classified elsewhere
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 Aneurysm of aorta in diseases classified elsewhere
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.
- Lues, luetic
- Dilated, dilation
- Lesion > syphilitic
- Disease, diseased > venereal
- Treponema pallidum infection
- Disease, diseased > syphilitic
- Treponematosis > due to > T. pallidum
- Infection, infected, infective > specific
- Disease, diseased > sexually transmitted > syphilis
- Infection, infected, infective > Treponema pallidum
- Aneurysm > syphilitic > congenital
- Syphilis, syphilitic > aneurysm > congenital
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I79.1 | Aortitis in diseases classified elsewhere | Valid |
| I79.8 | Other disorders of arteries, arterioles and capillaries in diseases classified elsewhere | Valid |