AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2018 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes

Lacunar Infarction

Code I63.8, Other cerebral infarction, was expanded and two new codes created:\ I63.81  Other cerebral infarction due to occlusion or stenosis of small artery I63.89  Other cerebral infarction Code I63.81 includes lacunar infarction to align with the World Health Organization’s indexing of this condition. Lacunar infarcts are small cerebral infarctions in the deep cerebral white matter, basal ganglia or pons. They are presumed to result from the occlusion of a single small perforating artery supplying the subcortical areas of the brain. Lacunar infarcts account for approximately one-fourth of all ischemic strokes. The “lacune&rdquo...

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