A52.06 Other syphilitic heart involvement

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applicable to

• Syphilitic coronary artery disease
• Syphilitic myocarditis
• Syphilitic pericarditis

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 314-316 in MDC 05.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 093.81 Syphilitic pericarditis (approximate)
• 093.82 Syphilitic myocarditis (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to A52.06

Back-references to A52.06

• Type 1 Excludes: I32 Pericarditis in diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilitic (A52.06)")
• Type 1 Excludes: I41 Myocarditis in diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilis (A52.06)")
• Type 1 Excludes: I52 Other heart disorders in diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilis (A52.06)")

Back-references to A52

• Type 2 Excludes: N34 Urethritis and urethral syndrome ("urethritis in diseases with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)")

Diagnosis Index entries for A52.06

• Aneurysm (anastomotic) (artery) (cirsoid) (diffuse) (false) (fusiform) (multiple) (saccular) › coronary (arteriosclerotic) (artery) › syphilitic
• Arteritis › coronary (artery) › syphilitic
• Arteritis › syphilitic (general) › coronary
• Degeneration, degenerative › myocardial, myocardium (fatty) (hyaline) (senile) › syphilitic
• Disease, diseased › heart (organic) › syphilitic
• Gumma (syphilitic) › heart
• Gumma (syphilitic) › myocardium
• Gumma (syphilitic) › pericardium
• Infarct, infarction › myocardium, myocardial (acute) (with stated duration of 4 weeks or less) › syphilitic
• Insufficiency, insufficient › myocardial, myocardium (with arteriosclerosis) › syphilitic
• Myocarditis (with arteriosclerosis)(chronic)(fibroid) (interstitial) (old) (progressive) (senile) › syphilitic (chronic)
• Narrowing › artery › coronary › due to syphilis NEC
• Pericarditis (with decompensation) (with effusion) › syphilitic
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › auricular fibrillation
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › cardiac decompensation
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › coronary (artery) (sclerosis)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › heart (block) (decompensation) (disease) (failure)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › myocardium
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › paroxysmal tachycardia
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › pericardium
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › sclerosis › coronary
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › tachycardia
• Thrombosis, thrombotic (bland) (multiple) (progressive) (silent) (vessel) › mural › due to syphilis

Nearby codes

• A52.01 Syphilitic aneurysm of aorta
• A52.02 Syphilitic aortitis
• A52.03 Syphilitic endocarditis
• A52.04 Syphilitic cerebral arteritis
• A52.05 Other cerebrovascular syphilis
• A52.06 Other syphilitic heart involvement (this code)
• A52.09 Other cardiovascular syphilis
• A52.1 Symptomatic neurosyphilis
• A52.10 Symptomatic neurosyphilis, unspecified
• A52.11 Tabes dorsalis
• A52.12 Other cerebrospinal syphilis