2008 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Diseases Of The Digestive System 520-579 > Other Diseases Of Digestive System 570-579 > Other Disorders Of Biliary Tract 576.* >  2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 576.1
Cholangitis On October 1, 2008 the 2009 ICD-9-CM codes came into effect. Therefore, this code may be out of date.
The 2009 version of ICD-9-CM 576.1 can be accessed here. - 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
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