G71.09
Other specified muscular dystrophies
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 7
G71.09code
Inclusion terms
- Benign scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy with early contractures [Emery-Dreifuss]
- Congenital muscular dystrophy NOS
- Congenital muscular dystrophy with specific morphological abnormalities of the muscle fiber
- Distal muscular dystrophy
- Ocular muscular dystrophy
- Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
- Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
Index entries leading here 9
- Dystrophy, dystrophia
- muscular G71.00
- benign (Becker type) G71.01
- scapuloperoneal with early contractures [Emery-Dreifuss] G71.09
- congenital (hereditary) (progressive) (with specific morphological abnormalities of the muscle fiber) G71.09
- distal G71.09
- specified type NEC G71.09
- Emery-Dreifuss G71.09
- hereditary (progressive) G71.09
- progressive (hereditary) G71.09
- scapuloperoneal G71.09
- benign (Becker type) G71.01
- ocular G71.09
- scapuloperoneal G71.09
- oculopharyngeal G71.09
- muscular G71.00
- Cardiomyopathy (familial) (idiopathic) I42.9
- due to
- progressive muscular dystrophy G71.09
- due to
- Myopathy G72.9
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
- pseudomuscular G71.09
- Myocardiopathy (congestive) (constrictive) (familial) (hypertrophic nonobstructive) (idiopathic) (infiltrative) (obstructive) (primary) (restrictive) (sporadic) I42.9
- in (due to)
- progressive muscular dystrophy G71.09
- in (due to)
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- pseudohypertrophic (muscle) G71.09
- Paresis — see also Paralysis
- pseudohypertrophic G71.09
- Pseudohypertrophy, muscle G71.09
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- scapuloperoneal G71.09
Alongside this code 4 same parent — G71.0
Medications 1
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