I51.5✓ Billable

Myocardial degeneration

Inclusion Terms

  • •Fatty degeneration of heart or myocardium
  • •Myocardial disease
  • •Senile degeneration of heart or myocardium

✗ Excludes 1(Not coded here)

  • •myocardial degeneration due to hypertension (I11.-)
  • •myocardial degeneration due to hypertension and chronic kidney disease (I13.-)

Code Hierarchy

┌9Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)├I30-I5AOther forms of heart disease (I30-I5A)├I51Complications and ill-defined descriptions of heart disease
└I51.5Myocardial degeneration

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