790.09 ABNORMAL RBC NEC

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Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 790.09

Short Description: Abnormal RBC NEC

Long Description: Other abnormality of red blood cells

Code Classification:

Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
- Nonspecific abnormal findings (790-796)
  - 790 Nonspecific findings on examination of blood
    - 790.09 Abnormal RBC NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

Abnormal erythrocyte production
Anisocytosis, red cells
Auto-agglutination of red blood cell
Bite cells
Blister cells
Dacrocytosis
Decreased erythrocyte destruction
Dyserythropoiesis
Echinocytosis
Erythrocyte aggregation
Finding of red blood cell staining
Finding related to hemoglobin H inclusions
Hematocrit - packed cell volume abnormal
Hereditary elliptocytosis with transient poikilocytosis
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
Howell Jolly bodies
Hypochromic red blood cells
Increased erythrocyte ghost cells in blood
Leptocytosis
Macrocytosis, red cells
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin abnormal
Megaloblastic erythropoiesis
Microcytosis, red cells
Microspherocytes seen
Neocyte
Non-anemic red cell disorder
Pappenheimer bodies
Plasmodium malariae gametocyte in red cell
Platelet count abnormal
Poikilocytosis
Puddle cells
Pyknocytosis
Red blood cell - red blood cell clumping
Red blood cell agglutination
Red blood cell count abnormal
Red blood cell enzymes abnormal
Red blood cell folate borderline low
Red blood cell inclusions
Red blood cell morphology abnormal
Red blood cell not clumping
Red blood cell volume outside reference range
Red blood cells - megaloblasts
Reticulocyte count abnormal
Rhytiocytosis
Rouleaux
Schistocytosis
Sickling test positive
Sputnik cells
Whole blood folate borderline high

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 790.09 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities - see also Anomaly
- red blood cells 790.09
  - morphology 790.09
  - volume 790.09

Anisocytosis 790.09

Findings, (abnormal), without diagnosis (examination) (laboratory test) 796.4
- anisocytosis 790.09
- poikilocytosis 790.09
- red blood cell 790.09
  - count 790.09
  - morphology 790.09
  - sickling 790.09
  - volume 790.09
- sickling of red blood cells 790.09

Poikilocytosis 790.09

Crosswalk Information

The code 790.09 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

ICD-9 Code		ICD-10 Code	ICD-10 Description
790.09		R71.8	Other abnormality of red blood cells

This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

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