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437.8 - Other Ill-defined Cerebrovascular Disease


The ICD 9 Code for Other ill-defined cerebrovascular disease is listed as 437.8.
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: 437.8
Long Description: Other ill-defined cerebrovascular disease
Short Description: Cerebrovasc disease NEC
Chapter: Diseases Of The Circulatory System
Block: Cerebrovascular Disease (430-438)
Related Descriptions: Cerebral hemiplegia
Cerebral paraplegia
Inequality in size of cerebral ventricles
Necrosis of central nervous system due to exposure to ionizing radiation
Rolandic vein occlusion syndrome
Small vessel cerebrovascular disease
Venous lake
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: I67.89 - Other cerebrovascular disease (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 437.8:
437.0 - Cerebral atherosclerosis
437.1 - Other generalized ischemic cerebrovascular disease
437.2 - Hypertensive encephalopathy
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
437.9 - Unspecified cerebrovascular disease