I68.0

ICD-10-CM Coding Rules

• I68.0

Clinical Information

• A disorder characterized by the deposition of amyloid in the wall of the vessels in the brain.

• A heterogeneous group of sporadic or familial disorders characterized by amyloid deposits in the walls of small and medium sized blood vessels of cerebral cortex and meninges. Clinical features include multiple, small lobar cerebral hemorrhage; cerebral ischemia brain ischemia); and cerebral infarction. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is unrelated to generalized amyloidosis. Amyloidogenic peptides in this condition are nearly always the same ones found in alzheimer disease. from kumar: robbins and cotran: pathologic basis of disease, 7th ed., 2005)

Details

• I68.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM I68.0 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of I68.0 – other international versions of ICD-10 I68.0 may differ.