437.2 - Hypertensive Encephalopathy
The ICD 9 Code for Hypertensive encephalopathy is listed as 437.2.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
| ICD 9 CM Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Diagnosis Code: | 437.2 |
| Long Description: | Hypertensive encephalopathy |
| Short Description: | Hypertens encephalopathy |
| Chapter: | Diseases Of The Circulatory System |
| Block: | Cerebrovascular Disease (430-438) |
| ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): | |
| ICD-10-CM Code: | I67.4 - Hypertensive encephalopathy |
| ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 437.2: | |
| 437.0 - Cerebral atherosclerosis | |
| 437.1 - Other generalized ischemic cerebrovascular disease | |
| 437.3 - Cerebral aneurysm, nonruptured | |
| 437.4 - Cerebral arteritis | |
| 437.5 - Moyamoya disease | |
| 437.6 - Nonpyogenic thrombosis of intracranial venous sinus | |
| 437.7 - Transient global amnesia | |
| 437.8 - Other ill-defined cerebrovascular disease | |
| 437.9 - Unspecified cerebrovascular disease | |