2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 448.9
Other and unspecified capillary diseases
- 2015
- Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
- Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
- ICD-9-CM 448.9 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 448.9 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM:
448.9 converts approximately to:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM I78.8 Other diseases of capillaries
Or:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM I78.9 Disease of capillaries, unspecified
Approximate Synonyms
- Arterial, arteriole and capillary disease
- Capillaritis
- Capillaritis due to drug
- Capillary hemorrhage
- Capillary hyperpermeability
- Capillary leak syndrome
- Capillary thrombosis
- Conjunctival telangiectasis
- Corticosteroid-induced telangiectasia
- Dilated capillaries
- Disorder of capillaries
- Familial pigmented purpuric eruption
- Hereditary benign telangiectasia
- Increased blood vessel permeability
- Increased capillary permeability
- Increased capillary resistance
- Lupus erythematosus-associated nailfold telangiectasia
- Primary idiopathic cutaneous telangiectasia
- Progressive ascending arborizing telangiectasia
- Scleroderma-associated nailfold telangiectasia
- Scleroderma-associated telangiectasia
- Secondary idiopathic telangiectasia
- Secondary telangiectasia
- Solar telangiectasia
- Sunburst telangiectases
- Telangiectasia
- Telangiectasia due to prolonged vasodilatation
- Telangiectasia due to radiation damage
- Telangiectasia due to venous hypertension
- Telangiectasia following surgery
- Telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans
- Telangiectasia of face
- Telangiectasia of nailfolds
- Unilateral nevoid telangiectasia syndrome
448.9 Excludes
- capillary fragility (hereditary) (287.8)
Applies To
- Capillary:
- hemorrhage
- hyperpermeability
- thrombosis
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to
448.9:
- Acroangiodermatitis 448.9
- Atonia, atony, atonic
- capillary 448.9
- Bleeding (see also Hemorrhage) 459.0
- capillary 448.9
- Deformity 738.9
- capillary (acquired) 448.9
- congenital NEC (see also Deformity, vascular) 747.60
- Degeneration, degenerative
- capillaries 448.9
- Dilatation
- capillaries 448.9
- Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
- capillaries 448.9
- Ectasia, ectasis
- capillary 448.9
- papillary 448.9
- Embolism 444.9
- capillary 448.9
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (nontraumatic) 459.0
- capillary 448.9
- Hyperpermeability, capillary 448.9
- Increase, increased
- permeability, capillary 448.9
- Rupture, ruptured 553.9
- capillaries 448.9
- Telangiectasia, telangiectasis (verrucous) 448.9
- ataxic (cerebellar) 334.8
- hemorrhagic, hereditary (congenital) (senile) 448.0
- hereditary hemorrhagic 448.0
- Thrombosis, thrombotic (marantic) (multiple) (progressive) (vein) (vessel) 453.9
- capillary 448.9
- arteriolar, generalized 446.6