2008 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Symptoms, Signs, And Ill-Defined Conditions 780-799 > Ill-Defined And Unknown Causes Of Morbidity And Mortality 797-799 > Other Ill-Defined And Unknown Causes Of Morbidity And Mortality 799.* >  2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 799.4
Cachexia- Any disease marked especially by progressive emaciation and weakness. (Dorland, 28th ed, p490)
- General ill health, malnutrition, and weight loss, usually associated with chronic disease.
- The loss of body weight and muscle mass frequently seen in patients with cancer, AIDS, or other diseases.
- 799.4 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
- 799.4 contains 6 index entries
- View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 799.* hierarchy
Code first underlying condition, if known 799.4 also known as:
Index entries containing 799.4:- Cachexia
 799.4- cancerous - see also Neoplasm, by site, malignant 799.4
- cardiac - see Disease, heart
- dehydration 276.51
- due to malnutrition 799.4
- exophthalmic 242.0
- heart - see Disease, heart
- hypophyseal 253.2
- hypopituitary 253.2
- lead 984.9
- specified type of lead - see Table of Drugs and Chemicals
- malaria 084.9
- malignant see also Neoplasm, by site, malignant 799.4
- marsh 084.9
- nervous 300.5
- old age 797
- pachydermic - see Hypothyroidism
- paludal 084.9
- pituitary (postpartum) 253.2
- renal (see also Disease, renal) 593.9
- saturnine 984.9
- specified type of lead - see Table of Drugs and Chemicals
- senile 797
- Simmonds' (pituitary cachexia) 253.2
- splenica 289.59
- strumipriva (see also Hypothyroidism) 244.9
- tuberculous NEC (see also Tuberculosis) 011.9
Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome- wasting NEC 799.4
Wasting- disease 799.4
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