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2008 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Endocrine, Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases, And Immunity Disorders 240-279 > Diseases Of Other Endocrine Glands 250-259 > Other Disorders Of Pancreatic Internal Secretion 251.* >

2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 251.2

Hypoglycemia unspecified

  • A syndrome of abnormally low BLOOD GLUCOSE level. Clinical hypoglycemia has diverse etiologies. Severe hypoglycemia eventually lead to glucose deprivation of the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM resulting in HUNGER; SWEATING; PARESTHESIA; impaired mental function; SEIZURES; COMA; and even DEATH.
  • Abnormally low blood sugar.
  • HYPOGLYCEMIA expressed after a meal or FOOD INTAKE. It is also called reactive or stimulative hypoglycemia.
  • 251.2 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
  • 251.2 contains 13 index entries
  • View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 251.* hierarchy

251.2 also known as:

  • Hypoglycemia:
    • NOS
    • reactive
    • spontaneous

251.2 excludes:

  • hypoglycemia:
  • leucine-induced (270.3)


Index entries containing 251.2:

Encephalopathy (acute) 348.30
  • hypoglycemic 251.2
Findings, abnormal, without diagnosis (examination) (laboratory test) 796.4
  • blood sugar level 790.29
    • low 251.2
Glycopenia 251.2
Hyperinsulinism (ectopic) (functional) (organic) NEC 251.1
  • reactive 251.2
  • spontaneous 251.2
Hypoglycemia (spontaneous) 251.2
  • coma 251.0
  • diabetic 250.8
  • due to insulin 251.0
    • therapeutic misadventure 962.3
  • familial (idiopathic) 251.2
  • following gastrointestinal surgery 579.3
  • infantile (idiopathic) 251.2
  • in infant of diabetic mother 775.0
  • leucine-induced 270.3
  • neonatal 775.6
  • reactive 251.2
  • specified NEC 251.1
McQuarrie's syndrome (idiopathic familial hypoglycemia) 251.2
Sugar
  • blood
    • low 251.2
Syndrome - see also Disease
  • hypoglycemic (familial) (neonatal) 251.2
  • McQuarrie's (idiopathic familial hypoglycemia) 251.2