ICD-10: I70

Atherosclerosis

Clinical Information

Includes

  • atheroma
  • senile arteritis
  • senile endarteritis
  • endarteritis deformans or obliterans
  • arteriolosclerosis
  • vascular degeneration
  • arterial degeneration
  • arteriosclerotic vascular disease
  • arteriovascular degeneration
  • arteriosclerosis

Coding Guidelines

Use Additional Code

  • exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
  • tobacco use (Z72.0)
  • code to identify:
  • tobacco dependence (F17.-)
  • occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)

Excludes 2

  • primary pulmonary atherosclerosis (I27.0)
  • coronary atherosclerosis (I25.1-)
  • arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (I25.1-)
  • arteriosclerotic heart disease (I25.1-)
  • atheroembolism (I75.-)
  • mesenteric atherosclerosis (K55.1)
  • precerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
  • cerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)

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