A52.17 General paresis

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

Applicable to

• Dementia paralytica

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 056-057 in MDC 01.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 094.1 General paresis

Code annotations containing back-references to A52.17

Back-references to A52.17

• Code First: F02 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere ("neurosyphilis (A52.17)")

Back-references to A52.1

• Type 1 Excludes: G99.8 Other specified disorders of nervous system in diseases classified elsewhere ("syphilis (A52.1-)")

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 A52.17

• Bayle's disease (general paresis)
• Convulsions (idiopathic) › paretic
• Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) › in (due to) › neurosyphilis
• Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) › in (due to) › neurosyphilis › with behavioral disturbance
• Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) › paralytica, paralytic (syphilitic)
• Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) › paralytica, paralytic (syphilitic) › with behavioral disturbance
• Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) › paretic
• Dementia (degenerative (primary)) (persisting) (unspecified severity) (without behavioral disturbance, psychotic disturbance, mood disturbance, and anxiety) › progressive, syphilitic
• Encephalopathy (acute) › in (due to) (with) › syphilis
• Erb's › palsy, paralysis (brachial) (birth) (newborn) › spinal (spastic) syphilitic
• Lissauer's paralysis
• Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) › general paresis
• Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) › paresis, paretic
• Neurosyphilis (arrested) (early) (gumma) (late) (latent) (recurrent) (relapse) › taboparesis (taboparetic)
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › with › syphilis
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › ataxic (hereditary) › general (syphilitic)
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › dementia
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › Erb's syphilitic spastic spinal
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › general (progressive) (syphilitic)
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › Lissauer's
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › progressive (atrophic) (bulbar) (spinal) › general
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › spastic › syphilitic (spinal)
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › spinal (cord) › atrophic (acute) › spastic, syphilitic
• Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) › syphilitic spastic spinal (Erb's)
• Paraplegia (lower) › spastic › Erb's spinal, syphilitic
• Paraplegia (lower) › syphilitic (spastic)
• Paresis › bladder (sphincter) › tabetic
• Paresis › general (progressive) (syphilitic)
• Paresis › insane (syphilitic)
• Paresis › syphilitic (general)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › brain
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › central nervous system (late) (recurrent) (relapse) (tertiary) › with › general paralysis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › central nervous system (late) (recurrent) (relapse) (tertiary) › with › paresis (general)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › central nervous system (late) (recurrent) (relapse) (tertiary) › with › taboparesis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › cerebral
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › cerebral › sclerosis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › dementia paralytica
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › general › paralysis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › hemiparesis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › hemiplegia
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › late › paresis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › Lissauer's paralysis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › monoplegia
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › paralysis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › paralysis › general
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › paresis (general)
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › pontine lesion
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › sclerosis › cerebral
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › spastic spinal paralysis
• Syphilis, syphilitic (acquired) › taboparesis

Nearby codes

• A52.12 Other cerebrospinal syphilis
• A52.13 Late syphilitic meningitis
• A52.14 Late syphilitic encephalitis
• A52.15 Late syphilitic neuropathy
• A52.16 Charcot's arthropathy (tabetic)
• A52.17 General paresis (this code)
• A52.19 Other symptomatic neurosyphilis
• A52.2 Asymptomatic neurosyphilis
• A52.3 Neurosyphilis, unspecified
• A52.7 Other symptomatic late syphilis
• A52.71 Late syphilitic oculopathy