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Specific code 2006 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 518.3
Pulmonary eosinophilia
  • ICD-9-CM 518.3 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 518.3 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2006 version of ICD-9-CM 518.3.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 518.3: 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 518.3 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM J82 Pulmonary eosinophilia, not elsewhere classified
Approximate Synonyms
  • Eosinophilic asthma
  • Tropical eosinophilia
  • Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia
Applies To
  • Eosinophilic asthma
  • Löffler's syndrome
  • Pneumonia:
    • allergic
    • eosinophilic
  • Tropical eosinophilia
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 518.3:
  • Allergy, allergic (reaction) 995.3
    • pneumonia 518.3
  • Asthma, asthmatic (bronchial) (catarrh) (spasmodic) 493.9
    • eosinophilic 518.3
    • pulmonary eosinophilic 518.3
  • Eosinophilia 288.3
    • infiltrative 518.3
    • Loeffler's 518.3
    • pulmonary (tropical) 518.3
    • tropical 518.3
  • Eosinophilic - see also condition
    • infiltration lung 518.3
  • Infiltrate, infiltration
    • lung (see also Infiltrate, pulmonary) 518.3
      • eosinophilic 518.3
      • x-ray finding only 793.1
    • pulmonary 518.3
      • with
        • eosinophilia 518.3
        • pneumonia - see Pneumonia, by type
        • x-ray finding only 793.1
  • Löffler's
    • eosinophilia or syndrome 518.3
    • pneumonia 518.3
    • syndrome (eosinophilic pneumonitis) 518.3
  • 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
    • allergic 518.3
    • broncho-, bronchial (confluent) (croupous) (diffuse) (disseminated) (hemorrhagic) (involving lobes) (lobar) (terminal) 485
      • with influenza 487.0
      • allergic 518.3
      • aspiration (see also Pneumonia, aspiration) 507.0
      • bacterial 482.9
      • capillary 466.19
        • with bronchospasm or obstruction 466.19
      • chronic (see also Fibrosis, lung) 515
      • congenital (infective) 770.0
      • diplococcal 481
      • Eaton's agent 483.0
      • Escherichia coli (E. coli) 482.82
      • Friedländer's bacillus 482.0
      • Hemophilus influenzae 482.2
      • hiberno-vernal 083.0 [484.8]
      • hypostatic 514
      • influenzal 487.0
      • inhalation (see also Pneumonia, aspiration) 507.0
        • due to fumes or vapors (chemical) 506.0
      • Klebsiella 482.0
      • lipid 507.1
      • Mycoplasma (pneumoniae) 483.0
      • ornithosis 073.0
      • pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) 483.0
      • pneumococcal 481
      • Proteus 482.83
      • Pseudomonas 482.1
      • specified organism NEC 483.8
      • staphylococcal 482.40
      • streptococcal - see Pneumonia, streptococcal
      • typhoid 002.0 [484.8]
      • viral, virus (see also Pneumonia, viral) 480.9
    • eosinophilic 518.3
    • Löffler's 518.3
  • Pneumonitis (acute) (primary) (see also Pneumonia) 486
    • eosinophilic 518.3
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Löffler's (eosinophilic pneumonitis) 518.3
    • PIE (pulmonary infiltration with eosinophilia 518.3
    • Weingarten's (tropical eosinophilia) 518.3
  • Weingarten's syndrome (tropical eosinophilia) 518.3
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