Other syphilitic heart involvement
Billable / specific
A52.06 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Syphilitic coronary artery disease
- Syphilitic myocarditis
- Syphilitic pericarditis
Includes (from A52)
- diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-) (from A52)
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters (from A52)
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-) (from A52)
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39) (from A52)
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22) (from A52)
- human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20) (from A52)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Syphilitic coronary artery disease
- Syphilitic myocarditis
- Syphilitic pericarditis
- Aneurysm, coronary, syphilitic
- Arteritis, coronary, syphilitic
- Arteritis, syphilitic, coronary
- Degeneration, degenerative, myocardial, myocardium, syphilitic
- Disease, diseased, heart, syphilitic
- Gumma, heart
- Gumma, myocardium
- Gumma, pericardium
- Infarct, infarction, myocardium, myocardial, syphilitic
- Insufficiency, insufficient, myocardial, myocardium, syphilitic
- Myocarditis, syphilitic
- Narrowing, artery, coronary, due to syphilis NEC
- Pericarditis, syphilitic
- Syphilis, syphilitic, auricular fibrillation
- Syphilis, syphilitic, cardiac decompensation
Parent code
- A52.0Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular syphilisHeader