ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O85-O92 › O87 Venous complications and... › O87.8
Other venous complications in the puerperium
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 Other venous complications in the puerperium
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 O87 Venous complications and hemorrhoids in the puerperium
Excludes2 - not included here
- obstetric embolism (O88.-)
- puerperal septic thrombophlebitis (O86.81)
- venous complications in pregnancy (O22.-)
Includes
- venous complications in labor, delivery and the puerperium
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.-)
- obstetrical tetanus (A34)
- 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.
- Varices
- Postpartum
- Puerperium
- Phlebectasia
- Tortuous > vein
- Varicose > vein
- Tumor > varicose
- Varicose > tumor
- Aneurysm > venous
- Complication > puerperium
- Rupture, ruptured > varix
- Disease, diseased > puerperal
- Rupture, ruptured > varicose vein
- Varicosis, varicosities, varicosity
- Puerperal, puerperium > diabetes > gestational
- Infection, infected, infective > varicose veins
- Varix > complicating > childbirth > genital
- Varix > complicating > puerperium > genital
- Puerperal, puerperium > varicose veins > vulva or perineum
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O87.0 | Superficial thrombophlebitis in the puerperium | Valid |
| O87.1 | Deep phlebothrombosis in the puerperium | Valid |
| O87.2 | Hemorrhoids in the puerperium | Valid |
| O87.3 | Cerebral venous thrombosis in the puerperium | Valid |
| O87.4 | Varicose veins of lower extremity in the puerperium | Valid |
| O87.9 | Venous complication in the puerperium, unspecified | Valid |