H42 Glaucoma in diseases classified elsewhere
Instructional Notes:
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H42
Description: Glaucoma in diseases classified elsewhere
Exclude1:
- glaucoma (in) onchocerciasis (B73.02)
- glaucoma (in) syphilis (A52.71)
- glaucoma (in) tuberculous (A18.59)
Code First:
- underlying condition, such as:
- amyloidosis (E85.-)
- aniridia (Q13.1)
- glaucoma (in) diabetes mellitus (E08.39, E09.39, E10.39, E11.39, E13.39)
- Lowe's syndrome (E72.03)
- Rieger anomaly (Q13.81)
- specified metabolic disorder (E70-E88)
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H40-H42
Description: Glaucoma (H40-H42)
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H00-H59
Description: Diseases of the eye and adnexa
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)
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
- 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)
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)
Notes:
- Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition