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2008 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Diseases Of The Digestive System 520-579 > Other Diseases Of Digestive System 570-579 > Intestinal Malabsorption 579.* > 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 579.1 Tropical sprue A chronic malabsorption syndrome, occurring mainly in residents of or visitors to the tropics or subtropics. The failed INTESTINAL ABSORPTION of nutrients from the SMALL INTESTINE results in MALNUTRITION and ANEMIA that is due to FOLIC ACID deficiency. 579.1 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 579.1 contains 10 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 579.* hierarchy 579.1 also known as: Sprue: NOS tropical Tropical steatorrhea Index entries containing 579.1: Cochin-China diarrhea 579.1 anguilluliasis 127.2 Diarrhea, diarrheal (acute) (autumn) (bilious) (bloody) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (gravis) (green) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (presumed noninfectious) (putrefactive) (secondary) (sporadic) (summer) (symptomatic) (thermic) 787.91 Cochin-China 579.1 anguilluliasis 127.2 psilosis 579.1 hill 579.1 tropical 579.1 Hill diarrhea 579.1 Psilosis (sprue) (tropical) 579.1 Monilia 112.89 nontropical 579.0 not sprue 704.00 Sprue 579.1 celiac 579.0 idiopathic 579.0 meaning thrush 112.0 nontropical 579.0 tropical 579.1 Steatorrhea (chronic) 579.8 tropical 579.1