U.S. ICD-10-CM reference · FY2027
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I76Billable / specificCurrent

Septic arterial embolism

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HierarchyI70-I79 · I76

Code-level instructions

Excludes 2

septic pulmonary embolism (I26.01, I26.90)

Code first
  • underlying infection, such as:
  • infective endocarditis (I33.0)
  • lung abscess (J85.-)
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code to identify the site of the embolism (I74.-)

Inherited instructions

Chapters 9 · Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)

Excludes 2
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
  • transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)
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