Hydrocephalus ICD-10-CM Codes | 2023

Besides head injuries, other causes include bleeding in the brain, bacterial infections, brain tumors, meningitis, and stroke. Some people are born with Hydrocephalus (congenital) as a result of problems during pregnancy and/or genetics.

Symptoms include headaches, cognitive problems, weak memory, sudden changes in personality, sudden changes in behavior, nausea, blurred vision, double vision, loss of balance, loss of coordination, and loss of bladder control.

If it's congenital, the child will likely have an abnormally large head with bulges, they will feel sleepy a lot of the time and have sun-setting eyes.

Right now, there is no cure for Hydrocephalus, and the only way to address it is to conduct surgery either by implanting a shunt in the brain or creating a hole in the floor of the third ventricle. The former drains excess CSF, and the latter prevents the flow of CSF from stopping.