Tuberculous meningitis
- A17.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2024 edition of ICD-10-CM A17.0 became effective on October 1, 2023.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of A17.0 – other international versions of ICD-10 A17.0 may differ.
Applicable To
- Tuberculosis of meninges (cerebral)(spinal)
- Tuberculous leptomeningitis
Type 1 Excludes
- tuberculous meningoencephalitis (A17.82)
The following code(s) above A17.0 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to A17.0:
Approximate Synonyms
- Tuberculosis (tb) of meninges
- Tuberculosis of meninges
Clinical Information
- A bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and the spinal cord caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- A form of bacterial meningitis caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis or rarely mycobacterium bovis. The organism seeds the meninges and forms microtuberculomas which subsequently rupture. The clinical course tends to be subacute, with progressions occurring over a period of several days or longer. Headache and meningeal irritation may be followed by seizures, cranial neuropathies, focal neurologic deficits, somnolence, and eventually coma. The illness may occur in immunocompetent individuals or as an opportunistic infection in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and other immunodeficiency syndromes. (from Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp717-9)
ICD-10-CM A17.0 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v41.0):
- 023 Craniotomy with major device implant or acute complex cns principal diagnosis with mcc or chemotherapy implant or epilepsy with neurostimulator
- 024 Craniotomy with major device implant or acute complex cns principal diagnosis without mcc
- 094 Bacterial and tuberculous infections of nervous system with mcc
- 095 Bacterial and tuberculous infections of nervous system with cc
- 096 Bacterial and tuberculous infections of nervous system without cc/mcc
- 974 Hiv with major related condition with mcc
- 975 Hiv with major related condition with cc
- 976 Hiv with major related condition without cc/mcc
Convert A17.0 to ICD-9-CMCode History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
Code annotations containing back-references to A17.0:
- Type 1 Excludes: G01
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to A17.0:
- Adhesions, adhesive (postinfective) K66.0
- Meningitis (basal) (basic) (brain) (cerebral) (cervical) (congestive) (diffuse) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (membranous) (metastatic) (nonspecific) (pontine) (progressive) (simple) (spinal) (subacute) (sympathetic) (toxic) G03.9
- caseous A17.0 (tuberculous)
- tuberculous A17.0
- Tuberculosis, tubercular, tuberculous (calcification) (calcified) (caseous) (chromogenic acid-fast bacilli) (degeneration) (fibrocaseous) (fistula) (interstitial) (isolated circumscribed lesions) (necrosis) (parenchymatous) (ulcerative) A15.9
- abscess (respiratory) A15.9
- meninges A17.0 (cerebral) (spinal)
- cerebrospinalA17.81
- meninges A17.0
- dura (mater) (cerebral) (spinal) A17.0
- spine, spinal (column) A18.01
- membrane A17.0
- meninges A17.0
- arachnoid A17.0
- leptomeninges, leptomeningitis A17.0 (cerebral) (spinal)
- meninges, meningitis A17.0 (basilar) (cerebral) (cerebrospinal) (spinal)
- pachymeningitis A17.0
- abscess (respiratory) A15.9