2006 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Diseases Of The Digestive System 520-579 > Other Diseases Of Digestive System 570-579 > Intestinal Malabsorption 579.* > 2006 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 579.0 Celiac disease View the most recent version of ICD-9-CM 579.0 A malabsorption syndrome that is precipitated by the ingestion of GLUTEN-containing foods, such as wheat, rye, and barley. It is characterized by INFLAMMATION of the SMALL INTESTINE, loss of MICROVILLI structure, failed INTESTINAL ABSORPTION, and MALNUTRITION. 579.0 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 579.0 contains 33 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 579.* hierarchy Alternate Terminology Celiac: crisis infantilism rickets Gee (-Herter) disease Gluten enteropathy Idiopathic steatorrhea Nontropical sprue  Index entries containing 579.0: Celiac disease 579.0 infantilism 579.0 Crisis celiac 579.0 Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome celiac (adult) 579.0 infantile 579.0 Gee (-Herter) (-Heubner) (-Thaysen) (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Herter (-Gee) (-Heubner) (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Heubner-Herter (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Thaysen-Gee (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Enteropathy 569.9 gluten 579.0 Gee (-Herter) (-Heubner) (-Thaysen) disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Herter's infantilism (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Herter (-Gee) disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Heubner-Herter disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Infantilism 259.9 celiac 579.0 Herter's (nontropical sprue) 579.0 intestinal 579.0 Intolerance gluten 579.0 Morbus celiacus 579.0 Psilosis (sprue) (tropical) 579.1 nontropical 579.0 Rickets (active) (acute) (adolescent) (adult) (chest wall) (congenital) (current) (infantile) (intestinal) 268.0 celiac 579.0 Sprue 579.1 celiac 579.0 idiopathic 579.0 nontropical 579.0 Steatorrhea (chronic) 579.8 idiopathic 579.0 adult 579.0 infantile 579.0 primary 579.0 Syndrome - see also Disease celiac 579.0 artery compression 447.4 axis 447.4 Gee-Herter-Heubner (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Herter (-Gee) (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Heubner-Herter (nontropical sprue) 579.0 Thaysen-Gee disease (nontropical sprue) 579.0