O36.5: Maternal care for poor fetal growth
Your unborn child is lighter or smaller than is normal for the week of pregnancy.
Ultrasound scans are done during pregnancy. These involve assessing things such as the size and weight of the unborn child.
An unborn child can be smaller or lighter than normal for different reasons. Such reasons may be infant deformities, for example. The child can also be lighter or smaller than normal if the parents are small. It may also be that the placenta is not working as well as normal. The placenta forms in the mother’s womb during pregnancy. The placenta consists of cells from the mother and cells from the unborn child. The placenta supplies the unborn child with nutrients and oxygen via the umbilical cord.
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
Note
This information is not intended for self-diagnosis and does not replace professional medical advice from a doctor. If you find an ICD code on a personal medical document, please also note the additional indicator used for diagnostic confidence.Your doctor will assist you with any health-related questions and explain the ICD diagnosis code to you in a direct consultation if necessary.
Source
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