Non-specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 345.1
Generalized convulsive epilepsy
  • 2015
  • Non-Billable Code

  • There are 2 ICD-9-CM codes below 345.1 that define this diagnosis in greater detail. Do not use this code on a reimbursement claim.
Clinical Information
  • Any form of epilepsy accompanied by myoclonus, shock like contractions of the muscle
345.1 Excludes
Applies To
  • Epileptic seizures:
    • clonic
    • myoclonic
    • tonic
    • tonic-clonic
  • Grand mal
  • Major epilepsy
  • Progressive myoclonic epilepsy
  • Unverricht-Lundborg disease
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 345.1:
  • Attack
    • myoclonic (see also Epilepsy) 345.1
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Unverricht (-Lundborg) 345.1
  • Epilepsy, epileptic (idiopathic) 345.9
    • clonic 345.1
    • generalized 345.9
      • convulsive 345.1
      • flexion 345.1
      • nonconvulsive 345.0
    • grand mal (idiopathic) 345.1
    • major (motor) 345.1
    • musicogenic 345.1
    • myoclonus, myoclonic 345.1
      • progressive (familial) 345.1
    • progressive myoclonic (familial) 345.1
    • reflex 345.1
    • tonic (-clonic) 345.1
    • Unverricht (-Lundborg) (familial myoclonic) 345.1
  • Grand
    • mal (idiopathic) (see also Epilepsy) 345.1
      • hysteria of CharcĂ´t 300.11
      • nonrecurrent or isolated 780.39
  • Haut mal (see also Epilepsy) 345.1
  • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome 345.0
    • with tonic seizures 345.1
  • Myoclonia (essential) 333.2
    • epileptica 345.1
  • Myoclonic
    • epilepsy, familial (progressive) 345.1
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome 345.0
      • with tonic seizures 345.1
    • Unverricht (-Lundborg) 345.1
  • Unverricht (-Lundborg) disease, syndrome, or epilepsy 345.1
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