446.5 - Giant Cell Arteritis
The ICD 9 Code for Giant cell arteritis is listed as 446.5.
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: | 446.5 |
| Long Description: | Giant cell arteritis |
| Short Description: | Giant cell arteritis |
| Chapter: | Diseases Of The Circulatory System |
| Block: | Diseases Of Arteries, Arterioles, And Capillaries (440-449) |
| ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): | |
| ICD-10-CM Code: | M31.6 - Other giant cell arteritis (approximate) |
| ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 446.5: | |
| 446.0 - Polyarteritis nodosa | |
| 446.1 - Acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome [MCLS] | |
| 446.3 - Lethal midline granuloma | |
| 446.4 - Wegener's granulomatosis | |
| 446.6 - Thrombotic microangiopathy | |
| 446.7 - Takayasu's disease | |