Diagnosis Code: 516.8

Short Description: Alveol pneumonopathy NEC

Long Description: Other specified alveolar and parietoalveolar pneumonopathies

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the respiratory system (460–519)
  • Other diseases of respiratory system (510-519)
    • 516 Other alveolar and parietoalveolar pneumopathy
      • 516.8 Alveol pneumonopathy NEC

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia
• Cholesterol pneumonia
• Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
• Endogenous lipoid pneumonia
• Giant cell interstitial pneumonitis
• Human immunodeficiency virus disease resulting in lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis
• Interstitial pneumonia
• Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia
• Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia
• Primary atypical interstitial pneumonia
• Seasonal cryptogenic organizing pneumonia with biochemical cholestasis

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 516.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Block
  • alveolar capillary 516.8

• BOOP (bronchiolitis obliterans organized pneumonia)� 516.8

• Bronchiolitis (acute) (infectious) (subacute) 466.19
  • obliterans 491.8
    • with organizing pneumonia (BOOP) 516.8

• Fibrosis, fibrotic
  • pulmonary (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • alveolar capillary block 516.8

• Pneumonia (acute) (Alpenstich) (benign) (bilateral) (brain) (cerebral) (circumscribed) (congestive) (creeping) (delayed resolution) (double) (epidemic) (fever) (flash) (fulminant) (fungoid) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (incipient) (infantile) (infectious) (infiltration) (insular) (intermittent) (latent) (lobe) (migratory) (newborn) (organized) (overwhelming) (primary) (progressive) (pseudolobar) (purulent) (resolved) (secondary) (senile) (septic) (suppurative) (terminal) (true) (unresolved) (vesicular) 486
  • bronchiolitis obliterans organized (BOOP) 516.8
  • broncho-, bronchial (confluent) (croupous) (diffuse) (disseminated) (hemorrhagic) (involving lobes) (lobar) (terminal) 485
    • lipid 507.1
      • endogenous 516.8
  • cholesterol 516.8
  • interstitial 516.8
    • with influenzal (see also Influenza) 487.0
    • acute
      • due to Pneumocystis (carinii) (jiroveci) 136.3
        • meaning:
          • acute interstitial pneumonitis 516.33
          • atypical pneumonia - see Pneumonia, atypical
          • bacterial pneumonia - see Pneumonia, bacterial
    • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • desquamative 516.37
    • hypostatic 514
    • idiopathic 516.30
      • lymphoid 516.35
    • lipoid 507.1
    • lymphoid (due to known underlying cause) 516.8
    • non-specific (due to known underlying cause) 516.8
    • organizing (due to known underlying cause) 516.8
    • plasma cell 136.3
    • Pseudomonas 482.1
  • lipid, lipoid (exogenous) (interstitial) 507.1
    • endogenous 516.8

• Pneumonitis (acute) (primary) (see also Pneumonia) 486
  • cholesterol 516.8
  • interstitial (chronic) (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
    • lymphoid 516.8
  • lymphoid, interstitial 516.8

• Pneumopathy NEC 518.89
  • alveolar 516.9
  • parietoalveolar 516.9
    • specified condition NEC 516.8

• Syndrome - see also Disease
  • alveolar capillary block 516.8

Crosswalk Information

The code 516.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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