N28.0
Ischemia and infarction of kidney
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 12 never code together
N28.0code
N00-N99chapter
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
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 5
N28.0code
Inclusion terms
- Renal artery embolism
- Renal artery obstruction
- Renal artery occlusion
- Renal artery thrombosis
- Renal infarct
Index entries leading here 9
- Embolism (multiple) (paradoxical) I74.9
- Occlusion, occluded
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
- Thrombosis, thrombotic (bland) (multiple) (progressive) (silent) (vessel) I82.90
- Infarct, infarction
- Crisis
- renal N28.0
- Ischemia, ischemic I99.8
- Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic) — see also Gangrene
- kidney (bilateral) N28.0
- Torsion
- kidney (pedicle) (leading to infarction) N28.0
Alongside this code 3 same parent — N28
Additional references
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