G40.A19 Absence epileptic syndrome, intractable, without status epilepticus

Instructional Notes:

G40.A19
Description: Absence epileptic syndrome, intractable, without status epilepticus
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G40.A1
Description: Absence epileptic syndrome, intractable
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G40.A
Description: Absence epileptic syndrome
Inclusion Term:
- Childhood absence epilepsy [pyknolepsy]
- Juvenile absence epilepsy
- Absence epileptic syndrome, NOS
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G40
Description: Epilepsy and recurrent seizures
Exclude1:
- conversion disorder with seizures (F44.5)
- convulsions NOS (R56.9)
- post traumatic seizures (R56.1)
- seizure (convulsive) NOS (R56.9)
- seizure of newborn (P90)
Exclude2:
- hippocampal sclerosis (G93.81)
- mesial temporal sclerosis (G93.81)
- temporal sclerosis (G93.81)
- Todd's paralysis (G83.84)
Notes:
- the following terms are to be considered equivalent to intractable: pharmacoresistant (pharmacologically resistant), treatment resistant, refractory (medically) and poorly controlled
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G40-G47
Description: Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
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G00-G99
Description: Diseases of the nervous system
Exclude2:
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)