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2008 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Endocrine, Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases, And Immunity Disorders 240-279 > Disorders Of Thyroid Gland 240-246 > Acquired Hypothyroidism 244.* > 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 244.9 Unspecified acquired hypothyroidism A condition in which the production of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland is diminished. Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism include low metabolic rate, tendency to weight gain, somnolence and sometimes myxedema. In the United States, the most common cause of hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disorder. SYN athyrea. --2004 The clinical syndrome that results from decreased secretion of thyroid hormone from the thyroid gland. It leads to a slowing of metabolic processes and in its most severe form to the accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in the skin, causing a nonpitting edema termed myxedema. Cretinism is the congenital form leading to abnormalities of intellectual and physical development. (Bennett, et al., Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 20th ed) Too little thyroid hormone. Symptoms include weight gain, constipation, dry skin, and sensitivity to the cold. Also called underactive thyroid. 244.9 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 244.9 contains 21 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 244.* hierarchy 244.9 also known as: Hypothyroidism, primary or NOS Myxedema, primary or NOS Index entries containing 244.9: Anemia 285.9 aplastic 284.9 myxedema 244.9 due to myxedema 244.9 Athyrea (acquired) (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 congenital 243 Athyroidism (acquired) (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 congenital 243 Atrophy, atrophic thyroid (gland) 246.8 with myxedema 244.9 Brissaud's infantilism (infantile myxedema) 244.9 Brissaud-Meige syndrome (infantile myxedema) 244.9 Cachexia 799.4 strumipriva (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 Deficiency, deficient thyroid (gland) 244.9 Euthyroidism 244.9 Hypothyroidism (acquired) 244.9 complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or puerperium 648.1 congenital 243 due to ablation 244.1 radioactive iodine 244.1 surgical 244.0 iodine (administration) (ingestion) 244.2 radioactive 244.1 irradiation therapy 244.1 p-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) 244.3 phenylbutazone 244.3 resorcinol 244.3 specified cause NEC 244.8 surgery 244.0 goitrous (sporadic) 246.1 iatrogenic NEC 244.3 iodine 244.2 pituitary 244.8 postablative NEC 244.1 postsurgical 244.0 primary 244.9 secondary NEC 244.8 specified cause NEC 244.8 sporadic goitrous 246.1 Inefficiency thyroid (acquired) (gland) 244.9 Infantilism 259.9 Brissaud's (infantile myxedema) 244.9 Myxedema (adult) (idiocy) (infantile) (juvenile) (thyroid gland) (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 circumscribed 242.9 congenital 243 cutis 701.8 localized (pretibial) 242.9 madness (acute) 293.0 subacute 293.1 papular 701.8 pituitary 244.8 postpartum 674.8 pretibial 242.9 primary 244.9 Obesity (constitutional) (exogenous) (familial) (nutritional) (simple) 278.00 hypothyroid (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 thyroid (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 Strumipriva cachexia (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 Subthyroidism (acquired) (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9 congenital 243 Syndrome - see also Disease Brissaud-Meige (infantile myxedema) 244.9