Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - J44
This notation helps users understand the scope of a code J44 category and provides additional information about the conditions or terms that fall under that category.
Category Includes:
- asthma with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- chronic asthmatic (obstructive) bronchitis
- chronic bronchitis with airway obstruction
- chronic bronchitis with emphysema
- chronic emphysematous bronchitis
- chronic obstructive asthma
- chronic obstructive bronchitis
- chronic obstructive tracheobronchitis
Use Additional Code: This note indicates that an additional code should be used in conjunction with the primary code "J44" to provide a complete picture of the patient's condition or to capture associated factors.
Use Additional:
- code to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Excludes1: It indicates that the conditions described by two codes cannot occur together in the same patient. These codes are mutually exclusive.
Type 1 Excludes:
- bronchiectasis (J47.-)
- chronic bronchitis NOS (J42)
- chronic simple and mucopurulent bronchitis (J41.-)
- chronic tracheitis (J42)
- chronic tracheobronchitis (J42)
- emphysema without chronic bronchitis (J43.-)
Code Also: It indicates that an additional code should be used alongside the primary code to capture related factors or associated conditions.
Category codeAlso:
- type of asthma, if applicable (J45.-)
These ranges represents subcategories of Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The "J44" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.
Codes:
- J44.0 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) lower respiratory infection
- J44.1 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) exacerbation
- J44.8 - Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- J44.81 - Bronchiolitis obliterans and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome
- J44.89 - Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- J44.9 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified