429.1 MYOCARDIAL DEGENERATION


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 429.1

Short Description: Myocardial degeneration

Long Description: Myocardial degeneration

Code Classification:

  • Diseases of the circulatory system (390–459)
    • Other forms of heart disease (420-429)
      • 429 Ill-defined descriptions and complications of heart disease
        • 429.1 Myocardial degeneration

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 429.1 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Acardiotrophia 429.1
  • Adiposity 278.02
    • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Atrophy, atrophic
    • cardiac (brown) (senile) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • heart (brown) (senile) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • myocardium (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Beau's
    • disease or syndrome (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Calcification
    • cardiac (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • valve - see Endocarditis
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Cardiomalacia (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Cardiomyoliposis (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Damage
    • myocardium (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • subendocardium, subendocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • cardiac (brown) (calcareous) (fatty) (fibrous) (hyaline) (mural) (muscular) (pigmentary) (senile) (with arteriosclerosis) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • valve, valvular - see Endocarditis
    • heart (brown) (calcareous) (fatty) (fibrous) (hyaline) (mural) (muscular) (pigmentary) (senile) (with arteriosclerosis) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • amyloid 277.39 [425.7]
      • atheromatous - see Arteriosclerosis, coronary
      • gouty 274.82
      • hypertensive (see also Hypertension, heart) 402.90
      • ischemic 414.9
      • valve, valvular - see Endocarditis
    • mural (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • heart, cardiac (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • muscle 728.9
      • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • myocardium, myocardial (brown) (calcareous) (fatty) (fibrous) (hyaline) (mural) (muscular) (pigmentary) (senile) (with arteriosclerosis) 429.1
      • with rheumatic fever (conditions classifiable to 390) 398.0
        • active, acute, or subacute 391.2
          • with chorea 392.0
        • inactive or quiescent (with chorea) 398.0
      • amyloid 277.39[425.7]
      • congenital 746.89
      • fetus or newborn 779.89
      • gouty 274.82
      • hypertensive (see also Hypertension, heart) 402.90
      • ischemic 414.8
      • rheumatic (see also Degeneration, myocardium, with rheumatic fever) 398.0
      • syphilitic 093.82
    • senile 797
      • cardiac, heart, or myocardium (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Deterioration
    • heart, cardiac (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • Beau's (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • heart (organic) 429.9
      • muscular (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • hypertensive (see also Hypertension, heart) 402.90
      • primary (idiopathic) 425.4
  • Dystrophy, dystrophia 783.9
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Excess, excessive, excessively
    • fat 278.02
      • in heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Failure, failed
    • heart (acute) (sudden) 428.9
      • degenerative (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Fat
    • excessive 278.02
    • localized (pad) 278.1
      • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Fatty - see also condition
    • heart (enlarged) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • infiltration (diffuse) (general) (see also Degeneration, by site, fatty) 272.8
      • heart (enlarged) (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Fever 780.60
    • rheumatic (active) (acute) (chronic) (subacute) 390
      • inactive or quiescent with
        • myocardial degeneration (conditions classifiable to 429.1) 398.0
  • Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
    • cardiac (chronic) (idiopathic) 429.3
      • fatty (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Infiltrate, infiltration
    • heart, cardiac
      • fatty (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • myocardium, myocardial
      • fatty (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Myocytolysis 429.1
  • Myomalacia 728.9
    • cordis, heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Ossification
    • cardiac (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
    • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • valve - see Endocarditis
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Softening
    • myocardial, heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Steatosis 272.8
    • heart (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
  • Stenosis (cicatricial) - see also Stricture
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1
      • hypertrophic subaortic (idiopathic) 425.11
  • Stricture (see also Stenosis) 799.89
    • myocardium, myocardial (see also Degeneration, myocardial 429.1
      • hypertrophic subaortic (idiopathic) 425.11
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Beau's (see also Degeneration, myocardial) 429.1

Crosswalk Information

The code 429.1 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
429.1 Right Arrow I51.5 Myocardial degeneration
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

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ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
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429.3 Cardiomegaly
429.4 Functional disturbances following cardiac surgery
429.5 Rupture of chordae tendineae
429.6 Rupture of papillary muscle
429.71 Acquired cardiac septal defect
429.79 Certain sequelae of myocardial infarction, not elsewhere classified, other
429.81 Other disorders of papillary muscle
429.82 Hyperkinetic heart disease
429.83 Takotsubo syndrome
429.89 Other ill-defined heart diseases
429.9 Heart disease, unspecified


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