786.09 RESPIRATORY ABNORM NEC


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 786.09

Short Description: Respiratory abnorm NEC

Long Description: Other respiratory abnormalities

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
    • Symptoms (780-789)
      • 786 Symptoms involving respiratory system and other chest symptoms
        • 786.09 Respiratory abnorm NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Synonyms

  • 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
  • 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 eating due to breathlessness
  • Difficulty expectorating
  • Difficulty huffing
  • Does not control breathing
  • Does not take deep breaths
  • Dyspnea
  • Dyspnea after eating
  • Dyspnea associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pulmonary hypertension due to alveolar hypoventilation disorder
  • 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
  • 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

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 786.09 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Air
    • hunger 786.09
      • psychogenic 306.1
  • Asymmetrical breathing 786.09
  • Bradypnea 786.09
  • Breathing
    • asymmetrical 786.09
    • bronchial 786.09
    • labored 786.09
    • periodic 786.09
      • high altitude 327.22
  • Breathlessness 786.09
  • Distress
    • respiratory 786.09
      • acute (adult) 518.82
      • adult syndrome (following trauma and surgery) 518.52
        • specified NEC 518.82
      • fetus or newborn 770.89
      • syndrome (idiopathic) (newborn) 769
  • Dyspnea (nocturnal) (paroxysmal) 786.09
    • asthmatic (bronchial) (see also Asthma) 493.9
      • with bronchitis (see also Asthma) 493.9
        • chronic 493.2
      • cardiac (see also Failure, ventricular, left) 428.1
    • cardiac (see also Failure, ventricular, left) 428.1
    • functional 300.11
    • hyperventilation 786.01
    • hysterical 300.11
    • Monday morning 504
    • newborn 770.89
    • psychogenic 306.1
    • uremic - see Uremia
  • Hypercapnia 786.09
    • with mixed acid-based disorder 276.4
    • fetal, affecting newborn 770.89
  • Hypoventilation 786.09
    • congenital central alveolar syndrome 327.25
    • idiopathic sleep related nonobstructive alveolar 327.24
    • obesity 278.03
    • sleep related, in conditions classifiable elsewhere 327.26
  • Inadequate, inadequacy
    • pulmonary
      • function 786.09
        • newborn 770.89
    • respiration 786.09
      • newborn 770.89
  • Insufficiency, insufficient
    • respiratory 786.09
      • acute 518.82
        • following� trauma and surgery 518.52
      • newborn 770.89
  • Irregular, irregularity
    • breathing 786.09
    • respiratory 786.09
  • Kussmaul's
    • respiration (air hunger) 786.09
  • Labored breathing (see also Hyperventilation) 786.09
  • Narcosis
    • carbon dioxide (respiratory) 786.09
  • Nocturnal - see also condition
    • dyspnea (paroxysmal) 786.09
  • Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) 344.9
    • respiratory (muscle) (system) (tract) 786.09
      • center NEC 344.89
        • fetus or newborn 770.87
      • congenital 768.9
      • newborn 768.9
  • Paroxysmal - see also condition
    • dyspnea (nocturnal) 786.09
  • Respiration
    • asymmetrical 786.09
    • bronchial 786.09
    • disorder of 786.00
      • specified NEC 786.09
    • insufficiency 786.09
      • acute 518.82
      • newborn NEC 770.89
    • Kussmaul (air hunger) 786.09
    • periodic 786.09
      • high altitude 327.22
    • poor 786.09
      • newborn NEC 770.89
  • Respiratory - see also condition
    • distress 786.09
      • acute 518.82
      • fetus or newborn NEC 770.89
      • syndrome (newborn) 769
        • adult (following trauma and surgery) 518.52
          • specified NEC 518.82
  • Smothering spells 786.09
  • Snoring 786.09
  • Yawning 786.09
    • psychogenic 306.1

Crosswalk Information

The code 786.09 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
786.09 Right Arrow R06.00 Dyspnea, unspecified
R06.09 Other forms of dyspnea
R06.3 Periodic breathing
R06.83 Snoring
R06.89 Other abnormalities of breathing
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.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
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
786.1 Stridor
786.2 Cough
786.30 Hemoptysis, unspecified
786.31 Acute idiopathic pulmonary hemorrhage in infants [AIPHI]
786.39 Other hemoptysis
786.4 Abnormal sputum
786.50 Chest pain, unspecified
786.51 Precordial pain
786.52 Painful respiration
786.59 Other chest pain
786.6 Swelling, mass, or lump in chest
786.7 Abnormal chest sounds
786.8 Hiccough
786.9 Other symptoms involving respiratory system and chest


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