Takotsubo syndrome
Billable / specific
I51.81 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
- Reversible left ventricular dysfunction following sudden emotional stress
- Stress induced cardiomyopathy
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
- Transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from I51)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from I51)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from I51)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from I51)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from I51)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from I51)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from I51)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from I51)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from I51)
- transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-) (from I51)
- heart disease specified as rheumatic (I00-I09) (from I51)
Also known as
- Reversible left ventricular dysfunction following sudden emotional stress
- Stress induced cardiomyopathy
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
- Transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome
- Cardiomyopathy, stress induced
- Cardiomyopathy, takotsubo
- Dysfunction, left ventricular, following sudden emotional stress
- Dysfunction, ventricular, left, reversible, following sudden emotional stress
- Syndrome, apical ballooning
- Syndrome, takotsubo
- Syndrome, transient left ventricular apical ballooning
Parent code
- I51.8Other ill-defined heart diseasesHeader
Related codes
- I51.89Other ill-defined heart diseasesBillable