ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O85-O92 › O86.8 Other specified puerperal infections › O86.89
Other specified puerperal infections
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 2010 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.
- FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Other specified puerperal infections
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 O86 Other puerperal infections
Excludes2 - not included here
- infection during labor (O75.3)
- obstetrical tetanus (A34)
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent
Inherited from the O85-O92 section Complications predominantly related to the puerperium (O85-O92)
Excludes2 - not included here
- mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium (F53.-)
- puerperal osteomalacia (M83.0)
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.
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Postpartum
- Puerperium
- Mortification
- Pericellulitis
- Febris, febrile
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Fever > erysipelatous
- Fire, Saint Anthony's
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Saint > Anthony's fire
- Abscess > erysipelatous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Toxemia > erysipelatous
- Complication > puerperium
- Fever > viral hemorrhagic
- Cellulitis > erysipelatous
- Disease, diseased > puerperal
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Gangrene, gangrenous > erysipelas
- Puerperal, puerperium > diabetes > gestational
- Infection, infected, infective > with > lymphangitis
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > lymphatic vessel
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > gangrenous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > skin > with gangrene
- Erysipelas > puerperal, postpartum
- Puerperal, puerperium > lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > puerperal, postpartum, childbirth
- Puerperal, puerperium > infection > specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective > puerperal > specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective > puerperal > genitourinary tract NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O86.81 | Puerperal septic thrombophlebitis | Valid |