Free Diagnosis Codes Lookup > 2009 > Complications Of Pregnancy, Childbirth, And The Puerperium 630-679 > Complications Mainly Related To Pregnancy 640-649 > Hypertension complicating pregnancy childbirth and the puerperium 642.* >
toxemia occurring in women in the second half of their pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, and usually by edema and proteinuria, but without the convulsions and coma associated with eclampsia.
pregnancy induced hypertensive states, including EPH gestosis when edema and proteinuria accompany hypertension; other hypertensive disorders that develop during pregnancy or the puerperium are preeclampsia and eclampsia, either of which may be superimposed upon chronic hypertensive vascular or renal disease.
Excludes
albuminuria in pregnancy, without mention of hypertension (646.2)
edema in pregnancy, without mention of hypertension (646.1)
Also applicable to/known as
Hypertension in pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium, not specified as pre-existing, with either albuminuria or edema, or both; mild or unspecified
Pre-eclampsia:
NOS
mild
Toxemia (pre-eclamptic):
NOS
mild
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index Entries That Refer To 642.4
2009 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 642.4
642.4
