ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K55-K64 › K55 Vascular disorders of intestine › K55.1
Chronic vascular disorders of intestine
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 Chronic vascular disorders of intestine
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 K55 Vascular disorders of intestine
Excludes1 - never coded here
- necrotizing enterocolitis of newborn (P77.-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- angioectasia (angiodysplasia) duodenum (K31.81-)
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.
- Pancolitis
- Sternalgia
- Arteriolith
- Mesarteritis
- Pseudoangina
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Pain > coronary
- Angina > variant
- Thromboarteritis
- Gastroenteropathy
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Hardening > artery
- Syndrome > anginal
- Angina > Prinzmetal
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Angina > angiospastic
- Arteritis > deformans
- Endarteritis > senile
- Ossification > artery
- Angina > spasm-induced
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Calcification > medial
- Attack, attacks > angina
- Destruction, destructive
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
- Plaque > artery, arterial
- Ischemia, ischemic > demand
- Ischemia, ischemic > supply
- Calcification > Mönckeberg's
- Occlusion, occluded > artery
- Gangrene, gangrenous > senile
Showing 40 of 119 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K55.0 | Acute vascular disorders of intestine | Not billable |
| K55.2 | Angiodysplasia of colon | Not billable |
| K55.3 | Necrotizing enterocolitis | Not billable |
| K55.8 | Other vascular disorders of intestine | Valid |
| K55.9 | Vascular disorder of intestine, unspecified | Valid |