Instruction Source: J45.50
Severe persistent asthma, uncomplicated
Instruction Source: J45.5
Severe persistent asthma
Instruction Source: J45
Asthma
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- detergent asthma (J69.8)
- miner's asthma (J60)
- wheezing NOS (R06.2)
- wood asthma (J67.8)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- asthma with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (J44.89)
- chronic asthmatic (obstructive) bronchitis (J44.89)
- chronic obstructive asthma (J44.89)
- other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (J44.89)
Inclusion Terms
- allergic (predominantly) asthma
- allergic bronchitis NOS
- allergic rhinitis with asthma
- atopic asthma
- extrinsic allergic asthma
- hay fever with asthma
- idiosyncratic asthma
- intrinsic nonallergic asthma
- nonallergic asthma
Instruction Source: J40-J4B
Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J4B)
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- bronchitis due to chemicals, gases, fumes and vapors (J68.0)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
Instruction Source: J00-J99
Diseases of the respiratory system
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- 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)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Clinical Notes
- When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).