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2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 579.0

Celiac disease

  • A malabsorption syndrome that is precipitated by the ingestion of GLUTEN-containing foods, such as wheat, rye, and barley. It is characterized by INFLAMMATION of the SMALL INTESTINE, loss of MICROVILLI structure, failed INTESTINAL ABSORPTION, and MALNUTRITION.
  • 579.0 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
  • 579.0 contains 33 index entries
  • View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 579.* hierarchy

579.0 also known as:

  • Celiac:
    • crisis
    • infantilism
    • rickets
  • Gee (-Herter) disease
  • Gluten enteropathy
  • Idiopathic steatorrhea
  • Nontropical sprue


Index entries containing 579.0:

Celiac
  • disease 579.0
  • infantilism 579.0
Crisis
  • celiac 579.0
Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • celiac (adult) 579.0
    • infantile 579.0
  • Gee (-Herter) (-Heubner) (-Thaysen) (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Herter (-Gee) (-Heubner) (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Heubner-Herter (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Thaysen-Gee (nontropical sprue) 579.0
Enteropathy 569.9
  • gluten 579.0
Gee (-Herter) (-Heubner) (-Thaysen) disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0
Herter's infantilism (nontropical sprue) 579.0
Herter (-Gee) disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0
Heubner-Herter disease or syndrome (nontropical sprue) 579.0
Infantilism 259.9
  • celiac 579.0
  • Herter's (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • intestinal 579.0
Intolerance
  • gluten 579.0
Morbus
  • celiacus 579.0
Psilosis (sprue) (tropical) 579.1
  • nontropical 579.0
Rickets (active) (acute) (adolescent) (adult) (chest wall) (congenital) (current) (infantile) (intestinal) 268.0
  • celiac 579.0
Sprue 579.1
  • celiac 579.0
  • idiopathic 579.0
  • nontropical 579.0
Steatorrhea (chronic) 579.8
  • idiopathic 579.0
    • adult 579.0
    • infantile 579.0
  • primary 579.0
Syndrome - see also Disease
  • celiac 579.0
  • Gee-Herter-Heubner (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Herter (-Gee) (nontropical sprue) 579.0
  • Heubner-Herter (nontropical sprue) 579.0
Thaysen-Gee disease (nontropical sprue) 579.0