ICD-10-CM Book 2024 Edition

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Nutritional anemias (D50-D53)

D50 Iron deficiency anemia
Includes asiderotic anemia
hypochromic anemia
D50.0 Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)
Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)
Excludes1 acute posthemorrhagic anemia (D62)
congenital anemia from fetal blood loss (P61.3)
D50.1 Sideropenic dysphagia
Kelly-Paterson syndrome
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
D50.8 Other iron deficiency anemias
Iron deficiency anemia due to inadequate dietary iron intake
D50.9 Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified
D51 Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Excludes1 vitamin B12 deficiency (E53.8)
D51.0 Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to intrinsic factor deficiency
Addison anemia
Biermer anemia
Pernicious (congenital) anemia
Congenital intrinsic factor deficiency
D51.1 Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria
Imerslund (Gräsbeck) syndrome
Megaloblastic hereditary anemia
D51.2 Transcobalamin II deficiency
D51.3 Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Vegan anemia
D51.8 Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemias
D51.9 Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia, unspecified
D52 Folate deficiency anemia
Excludes1 folate deficiency without anemia (E53.8)
D52.0 Dietary folate deficiency anemia
Nutritional megaloblastic anemia
D52.1 Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia
UseAdditionalCode code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
D52.8 Other folate deficiency anemias
D52.9 Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified
Folic acid deficiency anemia NOS
D53 Other nutritional anemias
Includes megaloblastic anemia unresponsive to vitamin B12 or folate therapy
D53.0 Protein deficiency anemia
Amino-acid deficiency anemia
Orotaciduric anemia
Excludes1 Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (E79.1)
D53.1 Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
Megaloblastic anemia NOS
Excludes1 Di Guglielmo's disease (C94.0)
D53.2 Scorbutic anemia
Excludes1 scurvy (E54)
D53.8 Other specified nutritional anemias
Anemia associated with deficiency of copper
Anemia associated with deficiency of molybdenum
Anemia associated with deficiency of zinc
Excludes1 nutritional deficiencies without anemia, such as:
copper deficiency NOS (E61.0)
molybdenum deficiency NOS (E61.5)
zinc deficiency NOS (E60)
D53.9 Nutritional anemia, unspecified
Simple chronic anemia
Excludes1 anemia NOS (D64.9)