2006 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Diseases Of The Genitourinary System 580-629 > Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome, And Nephrosis 580-589 > ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581 Nephrotic syndrome Clinical association of heavy PROTEINURIA, HYPOALBUMINEMIA, and generalized EDEMA. 581 is a non-specific code that cannot be used to specify a diagnosis ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.0 Nephrotic syndrome with lesion of proliferative glomerulonephritis 581.0 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.0 contains 4 index entries ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.1 Nephrotic syndrome with lesion of membranous glomerulonephritis 581.1 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.1 contains 11 index entries ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.2 Nephrotic syndrome with lesion of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis 581.2 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.2 contains 22 index entries ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.3 Nephrotic syndrome with lesion of minimal change glomerulonephritis Glomerular disease causing heavy proteinuria characterized by absence of obvious histologic glomerular changes on light microscopy. It is also called minimal change glomerular disease and minimal lesion glomerulonephritis. 581.3 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.3 contains 9 index entries ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.8 Nephrotic syndrome with other specified pathological lesion in kidney 581.8 is a non-specific code that cannot be used to specify a diagnosis ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.81 Nephrotic syndrome in diseases classified elsewhere 581.81 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.81 contains 33 index entries ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.89 Other nephrotic syndrome with specified pathological lesion in kidney 581.89 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.89 contains 10 index entries ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 581.9 Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified pathological lesion in kidney Descriptive histopathologic term for renal disease without an inflammatory component. 581.9 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 581.9 contains 22 index entries