ICD-10-CM › J00-J99 › J80-J84 › J81 Pulmonary edema › J81.0
Acute pulmonary edema
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 Acute pulmonary edema
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 J81 Pulmonary edema
Excludes1 - never coded here
- chemical (acute) pulmonary edema (J68.1)
- hypostatic pneumonia (J18.2)
- passive pneumonia (J18.2)
- pulmonary edema due to external agents (J60-J70)
- pulmonary edema with heart disease NOS (I50.1)
- pulmonary edema with heart failure (I50.1)
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)
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.
- Pitted
- Pitting
- Lipedema
- Retained
- Congestive
- Fluid > lung
- Hyperemia > lung
- Retention > water
- Engorgement > lung
- Potain's > disease
- Stasis > pulmonary
- Hyperemia > pulmonary
- Engorgement > pulmonary
- Dropsy, dropsical > lung
- Disease, diseased > Potain's
- Edema, edematous > pulmonary
- Hypostasis pulmonary, passive
- Congestion, congestive > hypostatic
- Edema, edematous > lung > acute
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J81.1 | Chronic pulmonary edema | Valid |