Diagnosis Code: 579.8

Short Description: Intest malabsorption NEC

Long Description: Other specified intestinal malabsorption

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the digestive system (520–579)
  • Other diseases of digestive system (570-579)
    • 579 Intestinal malabsorption
      • 579.8 Intest malabsorption NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Bile acid malabsorption syndrome
• Bile acid malabsorption syndrome type I
• Bile acid malabsorption syndrome type II
• Bile acid malabsorption syndrome type III
• Chemically-induced malabsorption
• Chronic steatorrhea
• Congenital microvillous atrophy
• Congenital secretory diarrhea
• Congenital secretory diarrhea, chloride type
• Congenital secretory diarrhea, sodium type
• Drug-induced malabsorption
• Eosinophilic gastroenteropathy with collagen vascular disease
• Exudative enteropathy
• Floating feces
• Food in stool
• Food intolerance
• Food intolerance
• Gordon's syndrome
• Impaired intestinal fat absorption
• Impaired intestinal protein absorption
• Intestinal malabsorption of carbohydrate
• Intestinal malabsorption of fat
• Intestinal malabsorption of protein
• Malabsorption - iron
• Malabsorption due to infective agent
• Malabsorption due to intolerance to carbohydrate
• Malabsorption due to intolerance to fat
• Malabsorption due to intolerance to protein
• Malabsorption due to intolerance to soya protein
• Milk intolerance
• Non-gluten sensitive enteropathy syndrome
• Protein malabsorption
• Protein-losing enteropathy
• Reactive gastropathy
• Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome
• Wheat intolerance

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 579.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Absorption
  • fat, disturbance 579.8
  • protein, disturbance 579.8

• Decrease, decreased
  • tolerance
    • fat 579.8

• Deficiency, deficient
  • bile salt 579.8

• Diarrhea, diarrheal (acute) (autumn) (bilious) (bloody) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (gravis) (green) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (presumed noninfectious) (putrefactive) (secondary) (sporadic) (summer) (symptomatic) (thermic) 787.91
  • bile salt-induced 579.8
  • due to
    • bile salts 579.8
  • prostaglandin induced 579.8

• Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • Gordon's (exudative enteropathy) 579.8

• Disturbance - see also Disease
  • absorption NEC 579.9
    • carbohydrate 579.8
    • fat 579.8
    • protein 579.8
    • specified type NEC 579.8

• Enteropathy 569.9
  • exudative (of Gordon) 579.8
  • protein-losing 579.8

• Fat
  • indigestion 579.8

• Gastroenteropathy, protein-losing 579.8

• Gastropathy 537.9
  • exudative 579.8

• Gordon's disease (exudative enteropathy) 579.8

• Indigestion (bilious) (functional) 536.8
  • fat 579.8

• Intolerance
  • carbohydrate NEC 579.8
  • fat NEC 579.8
  • foods NEC 579.8
  • milk NEC 579.8
  • starch NEC 579.8

• Malabsorption 579.9
  • calcium 579.8
  • carbohydrate 579.8
  • drug-induced 579.8
  • due to bacterial overgrowth 579.8
  • fat 579.8
  • protein 579.8

• Steatorrhea (chronic) 579.8
  • with lacteal obstruction 579.2
  • idiopathic 579.0
    • adult 579.0
    • infantile 579.0
  • pancreatic 579.4
  • primary 579.0
  • secondary 579.8
  • specified cause NEC 579.8
  • tropical 579.1

Crosswalk Information

The code 579.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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