2006 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Symptoms, Signs, And Ill-Defined Conditions 780-799 > Ill-Defined And Unknown Causes Of Morbidity And Mortality 797-799 > Other Ill-Defined And Unknown Causes Of Morbidity And Mortality 799.* > 2006 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 799.4 Cachexia View the most recent version of ICD-9-CM 799.4 The loss of body weight and muscle mass frequently seen in patients with cancer, AIDS, or other diseases. Any disease marked especially by progressive emaciation and weakness. General ill health, malnutrition, and weight loss, usually associated with chronic disease. 799.4 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 799.4 contains 3 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 799.* hierarchy Alternate Terminology Wasting disease 799.4 Excludes nutritional marasmus (261)  Index entries containing 799.4: Cachexia 799.4 cancerous - see also Neoplasm, by site, malignant 799.4 cardiac - see Disease, heart dehydration 276.51 with hypernatremia 276.0 hyponatremia 276.1 due to malnutrition 799.4 exophthalmic 242.0 heart - see Disease, heart hypophyseal 253.2 hypopituitary 253.2 lead 984.9 specified type of lead - see Table of Drugs and Chemicals malaria 084.9 malignant see also Neoplasm, by site, malignant 799.4 marsh 084.9 nervous 300.5 old age 797 pachydermic - see Hypothyroidism paludal 084.9 pituitary (postpartum) 253.2 renal (see also Disease, renal) 593.9 saturnine 984.9 specified type of lead - see Table of Drugs and Chemicals senile 797 Simmonds' (pituitary cachexia) 253.2 splenica 289.59 strumipriva (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 tuberculous NEC (see also Tuberculosis) 011.9 Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome wasting NEC 799.4 due to malnutrition 261 paralysis 335.21 Wasting disease 799.4 due to malnutrition 261