I24.1 Dressler's syndrome

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

Applicable to

• Postmyocardial infarction syndrome

Excludes1 (never code together)

• postinfarction angina (I23.7)

Applies from I24 Other acute ischemic heart diseases

Excludes1 (never code together)

• angina pectoris (I20.-)
• transient myocardial ischemia in newborn (P29.4)

Excludes2 (not included here)

• non-ischemic myocardial injury (I5A)

Risk adjustment (HCC)

• CMS-HCC V28: HCC 229 — Unstable Angina and Other Acute Ischemic Heart Disease
• CMS-HCC V22: HCC 87 — Unstable Angina and Other Acute Ischemic Heart Disease
• RxHCC V08: HCC 188 — Coronary Artery Disease
• ESRD V24: HCC 87

MS-DRG index

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

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 411.0 Postmyocardial infarction syndrome

Code annotations containing back-references to I24.1

Back-references to I24.1

• Type 2 Excludes: I21 Acute myocardial infarction ("postmyocardial infarction syndrome (I24.1)")
• Type 1 Excludes: I30 Acute pericarditis ("Dressler's syndrome (I24.1)")
• Type 2 Excludes: Z86.7 Personal history of diseases of the circulatory system ("postmyocardial infarction syndrome (I24.1)")

Back-references to I24

• Type 2 Excludes: I5A Non-ischemic myocardial injury (non-traumatic) ("other acute ischemic heart diseases (I24.-)")
• Type 2 Excludes: I74 Arterial embolism and thrombosis ("coronary embolism and thrombosis (I21-I25)")
• Type 2 Excludes: I82 Other venous embolism and thrombosis ("coronary (I21-I25)")

Diagnosis Index entries for I24.1

• Dressler's syndrome
• Pericarditis (with decompensation) (with effusion) › postinfarction
• Syndrome › Dressler's (postmyocardial infarction)
• Syndrome › postcardiac injury › postmyocardial infarction
• Syndrome › postinfarction
• Syndrome › postmyocardial infarction

Nearby codes

• I24 Other acute ischemic heart diseases
• I24.0 Acute coronary thrombosis not resulting in myocardial infarction
• I24.1 Dressler's syndrome (this code)
• I24.8 Other forms of acute ischemic heart disease
• I24.81 Acute coronary microvascular dysfunction
• I24.89 Other forms of acute ischemic heart disease
• I24.9 Acute ischemic heart disease, unspecified