G71.038
Other limb girdle muscular dystrophy
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
G71code
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 2
Index entries leading here 1
- Dystrophy, dystrophia
- muscular G71.00
- limb-girdle G71.039
- collagen VI related
- autosomal recessive G71.038
- autosomal recessive NEC G71.038
- R7 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R8 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R10 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R11 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R13 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R14 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R15 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R16 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R17 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R18 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R19 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R20 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R21 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R22 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R23 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- R24 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2 (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- specified NEC G71.038
- type 2G (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2H (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2J (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2K (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2M (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2N (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2O (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2P (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2Q (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2S (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2T (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- type 2U (autosomal recessive) G71.038
- FKRP-related autosomal recessive G71.038
- collagen VI related
- limb-girdle G71.039
- Leyden-Möbius G71.039
- meaning Limb girdle muscular dystrophy, specified type NEC G71.038
- muscular G71.00
Alongside this code 7 same parent — G71.03
G71.031 Autosomal dominant limb girdle muscular dystrophy G71.032 Autosom recess limb girdle musc dyst d/t calpain-3 dysfnct G71.033 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy due to dysferlin dysfunction G71.034 Limb girdle musc dyst due to sarcoglycan dysfunction category G71.035 Limb girdle musc dyst due to anoctamin-5 dysfunction G71.036 Limb girdle musc dyst due to fukutin related protein dysfnct G71.039 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy, unspecified
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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