I25.9: Chronic ischaemic heart disease, unspecified
Your heart muscle was not getting enough blood. As a result your heart tissue has been damaged.
The heart is supplied with oxygen-rich blood via the coronary arteries. The coronary arteries are blood vessels that run around the outside of the heart. Your heart muscle was not getting enough blood for a long time. Your heart got damaged as a result. As a result, it is unable to pump properly, for example.
Additional indicator
On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.
- G: Confirmed diagnosis
- V: Tentative diagnosis
- Z: Condition after
- A: Excluded diagnosis
- L: Left
- R: Right
- B: Both sides
Further information
Source
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