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2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 576.1

Cholangitis

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  • Chronic inflammatory disease of the BILIARY TRACT. It is characterized by fibrosis and hardening of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary ductal systems leading to bile duct strictures, CHOLESTASIS, and eventual BILIARY CIRRHOSIS.
  • Inflammation of the biliary ductal system (BILE DUCTS); intrahepatic, extrahepatic, or both.
  • 576.1 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
  • 576.1 contains 7 index entries
  • View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 576.* hierarchy

576.1 also known as:

  • Cholangitis:
    • NOS
    • acute
    • ascending
    • chronic
    • primary
    • recurrent
    • sclerosing
    • secondary
    • stenosing
    • suppurative

Index entries containing 576.1:

Angiocholitis (see also Cholecystitis, acute) 576.1
Cholangiolitis (acute) (chronic) (extrahepatic) (gangrenous) 576.1
  • intrahepatic 575.8
  • paratyphoidal (see also Fever, paratyphoid) 002.9
  • typhoidal 002.0
Cholangitis (acute) (ascending) (catarrhal) (chronic) (infective) (malignant) (primary) (recurrent) (sclerosing) (secondary) (stenosing) (suppurative) 576.1
  • chronic nonsuppurative destructive 571.6
  • nonsuppurative destructive (chronic) 571.6
Choledochitis (suppurative) 576.1
Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) 136.9
  • bile duct 576.1
  • common duct 576.1
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
  • bile duct or passage 576.1