eMedCodes logo

786.09 - Other Respiratory Abnormalities


The ICD 9 Code for Other respiratory abnormalities is listed as 786.09.
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: 786.09
Long Description: Other respiratory abnormalities
Short Description: Respiratory abnorm NEC
Chapter: Symptoms, Signs, And Ill Defined Conditions
Block: Symptoms (780-789)
Related Descriptions: Abnormal airflow
Abnormal breath sounds
Abnormal distribution of ventilation
Abnormal respiratory rhythm
Acidotic hyperventilation
Acute hypoventilation
Adopts particular posture for breathing
Agonal respiration
Air hunger
Airway constriction
Alveolar hypoventilation
Apneusis
Ataxic respiration
Basal crepitations
Borg Breathlessness Score: 1 very slight
Borg Breathlessness Score: 10 maximal
Borg Breathlessness Score: 2 slight
Borg Breathlessness Score: 3 moderate
Borg Breathlessness Score: 4 somewhat severe
Borg Breathlessness Score: 5 severe
Borg Breathlessness Score: 6 severe (+)
Borg Breathlessness Score: 7 very severe
Borg Breathlessness Score: 8 very severe (+)
Borg Breathlessness Score: 9 very, very severe (almost maximal)
Breathless - mild exertion
Breathless - moderate exertion
Breathless - strenuous exertion
Bronchial breathing
Cannot blow
Cannot breathe deeply enough
Catching breath
Central sleep apnea due to periodic breathing
Chest movement unequal
Choking during respiration
Chronic hypercapnia
Chronic hypoventilation
Chronic respiratory insufficiency
Cluster breathing
Crowing respiration
Death rattle
Decreased blood oxygen pressure
Decreased Bohr effect
Decreased breath sounds
Decreased oxygen affinity
Decreased peak expiratory flow rate
Decreased total lung capacity
Decreased vital capacity
Depth of breathing uneven
Depth of respiration varies
Difficulty breathing
Difficulty controlling breathing
Difficulty expectorating
Difficulty huffing
Does not control breathing
Does not take deep breaths
Dyspnea
Dyspnea after eating
Dyspnea associated with AIDS
Dyspnea at rest
Dyspnea leaning over
Dyspnea on exertion
Dyspnea raising arms
Dyspnea, class I
Dyspnea, class II
Dyspnea, class III
Dyspnea, class IV
Excessively deep breathing
Expiratory dyspnea
Extreme obesity with alveolar hypoventilation
Fetal OR intrauterine hypercapnia, not clear if noted before OR after onset of labor in liveborn infant
Finding of yawning
Fish-mouthing
FVC - forced vital capacity abnormal
Grunting respiration
Gurgling
Hissing respiration
Hypercapnia
Hypoventilation
Impaired gas exchange
Impaired spontaneous ventilation
Increased blood oxygen pressure
Increased forced expiratory volume
Increased functional residual capacity
Increasing breathlessness
Ineffective airway clearance
Ineffective breathing pattern
Inspiratory dyspnea
Irregular breathing
Kussmaul's respiration
Labored breathing
Lack of respiratory drive
Less than 60% of predicted peak expiratory flow rate
Less than 60% of predicted peak flow rate
Low-pitched rhonchi
Lung function mildly obstructed
Meningitic respiration
Neonatal hypoventilation
Nocturnal dyspnea
Obstructive ventilatory defect
On examination - air hunger
On examination - bronchial breathing
On examination - death rattle
On examination - dyspnea
On examination - respiratory distress
On examination - stertorous breathing
Paradoxical inspiratory filling of neck veins
Paroxysmal dyspnea
Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea
Platypnea
Poor respiratory drive
Primary alveolar hypoventilation
Pulmonary hypertension associated with chronic underventilation
Pursed-lip breathing
Rattling breathing
Regional ventilation differences due to unequal bronchial pathway lengths
Regional ventilation differences due to unequal compliance
Regional ventilation differences due to unequal stress
Respiratory distress
Respiratory insufficiency
Respiratory murmur
Respiratory squeak
Respiratory tract paralysis
Shallow breathing
Slow respiration
Slow shallow breathing
Smothering (event)
Snoring
Snoring symptoms
Sobbing respiration
Stertorous breathing
Stops breathing
Thoracic breathing
Transient respiratory distress with sepsis
Trepopnea
Unable to breathe
Unable to control breathing
Unable to cough
Unable to huff
Unable to take deep breaths
Visible respiratory effort
Whispering pectoriloquy
Whistling in nose
Whooping respiration
Winded
Yawning
Yawning absent
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: R06.00 - Dyspnea, unspecified (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: R06.09 - Other forms of dyspnea (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: R06.3 - Periodic breathing (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: R06.83 - Snoring (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code: R06.89 - Other abnormalities of breathing (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 786.09:
786.00 - Respiratory abnormality, unspecified
786.01 - Hyperventilation
786.02 - Orthopnea
786.03 - Apnea
786.04 - Cheyne-Stokes respiration
786.05 - Shortness of breath
786.06 - Tachypnea
786.07 - Wheezing