N17.9

Applicable To

• Acute kidney injury nontraumatic)

Approximate Synonyms

• Acute nontraumatic kidney injury

• Acute renal failure

• Acute renal failure after procedure

• Acute renal failure due to ace inhibitor

• Acute renal failure due to contrast agent

• Acute renal failure due to obstruction

• Acute renal failure from obstruction

• Acute renal failure on dialysis

• Acute renal failure syndrome

• Acute with chronic renal failure

• Acute-on-chronic renal failure

• Injury kidney, nontraumatic, acute

• Postprocedural acute renal failure

• Prerenal kidney failure

• Prerenal renal failure

• Renal failure arf), acute, ace i-induced

Clinical Information

• A disorder characterized by the acute loss of renal function and is traditionally classified as pre-renal low blood flow into kidney), renal kidney damage) and post-renal causes ureteral or bladder outflow obstruction).

• Clinical syndrome characterized by a sudden decrease in glomerular filtration rate, usually associated with oliguria and always associated with biochemical consequences of the reduction in glomerular filtration rate such as a rise in blood urea nitrogen bun) and serum creatinine concentrations.

• Sudden and sustained deterioration of the kidney function characterized by decreased glomerular filtration rate, increased serum creatinine or oliguria.

Details

• N17.9 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 N17.9 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of N17.9 – other international versions of ICD-10 N17.9 may differ.