359.0 CONG HERED MUSC DYSTRPHY


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 359.0

Short Description: Cong hered musc dystrphy

Long Description: Congenital hereditary muscular dystrophy

Code Classification:

  • Diseases of the nervous system (320–359)
    • Disorders of the peripheral nervous system (350-359)
      • 359 Muscular dystrophies and other myopathies
        • 359.0 Cong hered musc dystrphy

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 359.0 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • central core 359.0
    • nemaline body 359.0
  • Dystrophy, dystrophia 783.9
    • muscular 359.1
      • congenital (hereditary) 359.0
        • myotonic 359.22
  • Hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotony 781.3
    • infantile muscular (benign) 359.0
  • Myopathy 359.9
    • benign, congenital 359.0
    • central core 359.0
    • centronuclear 359.0
    • congenital (benign) 359.0
    • myotubular 359.0
    • nemaline 359.0
    • rod body 359.0

Crosswalk Information

The code 359.0 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
359.0 Right Arrow G71.2 Congenital myopathies
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
359.1 Hereditary progressive muscular dystrophy
359.21 Myotonic muscular dystrophy
359.22 Myotonia congenita
359.23 Myotonic chondrodystrophy
359.24 Drug- induced myotonia
359.29 Other specified myotonic disorder
359.3 Periodic paralysis
359.4 Toxic myopathy
359.5 Myopathy in endocrine diseases classified elsewhere
359.6 Symptomatic inflammatory myopathy in diseases classified elsewhere
359.71 Inclusion body myositis
359.79 Other inflammatory and immune myopathies, NEC
359.81 Critical illness myopathy
359.89 Other myopathies
359.9 Myopathy, unspecified


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