Epilepsy and recurrent seizures
Non-billable header
G40 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- Note: the following terms are to be considered equivalent to intractable: pharmacoresistant (pharmacologically resistant), treatment resistant, refractory (medically) and poorly controlled
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- hippocampal sclerosis (G93.81)
- mesial temporal sclerosis (G93.81)
- temporal sclerosis (G93.81)
- Todd's paralysis (G83.84)
Also known as
- Dementia, in epilepsy
- Dementia, in epilepsy, with behavioral disturbance
More specific codes G40
- G40.0Localization-related (focal) (partial) idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with seizures of localized onsetHeader
- G40.1Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizuresHeader
- G40.2Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizuresHeader
- G40.3Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromesHeader
- G40.AAbsence epileptic syndromeHeader
- G40.BJuvenile myoclonic epilepsy [impulsive petit mal]Header
- G40.CLafora progressive myoclonus epilepsyHeader
- G40.4Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromesHeader
- G40.5Epileptic seizures related to external causesHeader
- G40.8Other epilepsy and recurrent seizuresHeader
- G40.9Epilepsy, unspecifiedHeader