Q24.8: Other specified congenital malformations of heart
You have a change in your heart. This condition is congenital, which means you were born with it.
The heart is slightly left of center in the chest. The heart pumps blood through the body. All of the areas in the body are supplied with oxygen and nutrients as a result. The heart is composed of a thick muscle layer and a thin membrane in the heart interior. An external sac, the pericardium, surrounds the heart. This sac consists of a tight membrane.
For example, the muscular layer of your heart or the sac surrounding the heart (pericardium) may have changed. Your heart may be positioned differently in the body than it normally would be.
Changes in your heart do not always cause symptoms to develop. However, they may prevent the heart from working properly. This causes a failure to grow as normal during childhood. They can also cause shortness of breath or a build-up of fluid in the body. This sometimes causes the legs to swell up. You might also have chest pain.
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
Provided by the non-profit organization “Was hab’ ich?” gemeinnützige GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).