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2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 579.8
Other specified intestinal malabsorption
- excessive amounts of fats in the feces, as in malabsorption syndromes.
- Short description: Intest malabsorption NEC.
- ICD-9-CM 579.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
- You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 579.8.
- More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 579.8: 2013.
579.8 Alternative Terminology
- Bile acid malabsorption syndrome
- Bile acid malabsorption syndrome type i
- Bile acid malabsorption syndrome type ii
- Bile acid malabsorption syndrome type iii
- Chemically-induced malabsorption
- Chronic steatorrhea
- Congenital microvillous atrophy
- Congenital secretory diarrhea
- Congenital secretory diarrhea, chloride type
- Congenital secretory diarrhea, sodium type
- Drug-induced malabsorption
- Eosinophilic gastroenteropathy with collagen vascular disease
- Exudative enteropathy
- Floating feces
- Food in stool
- Food intolerance
- Gordon's syndrome
- Impaired intestinal fat absorption
- Impaired intestinal protein absorption
- Intestinal malabsorption of carbohydrate
- Intestinal malabsorption of fat
- Intestinal malabsorption of protein
- Malabsorption - iron
- Malabsorption due to infective agent
- Malabsorption due to intolerance to carbohydrate
- Malabsorption due to intolerance to fat
- Malabsorption due to intolerance to protein
- Malabsorption due to intolerance to soya protein
- Non-gluten sensitive enteropathy syndrome
- Protein malabsorption
- Protein-losing enteropathy
- Reactive gastropathy
Applies To
- Enteropathy:
- exudative
- protein-losing
- Steatorrhea (chronic)
Convert 579.8 to ICD-10-CM 
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 579.8:
- Absorption
fat, disturbance 579.8
protein, disturbance 579.8
- Decrease, decreased
- tolerance
fat 579.8- salt and water 276.9
- Deficiency, deficient
- bile salt 579.8
- Diarrhea, diarrheal (acute) (autumn) (bilious) (bloody) (catarrhal) (choleraic) (chronic) (gravis) (green) (infantile) (lienteric) (noninfectious) (presumed noninfectious) (putrefactive) (secondary) (sporadic) (summer) (symptomatic) (thermic) 787.91
- bile salt-induced 579.8
- due to
achylia gastrica 536.8- Aerobacter aerogenes 008.2
- Bacillus coli - see Enteritis, E. coli
- bacteria NEC 008.5
- bile salts 579.8
- Capillaria
- Clostridium perfringens (C) (F) 008.46
- Enterobacter aerogenes 008.2
- enterococci 008.49
- Escherichia coli - see Enteritis, E. coli
- Giardia lamblia 007.1
- Heterophyes heterophyes 121.6
- irritating foods 787.91
- Metagonimus yokogawai 121.5
- Necator americanus 126.1
- Paracolobactrum arizonae 008.1
- Paracolon bacillus NEC 008.47
- Arizona 008.1
- Proteus (bacillus) (mirabilis) (Morganii) 008.3
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa 008.42
- S. japonicum 120.2
- specified organism NEC 008.8
- Staphylococcus 008.41
- Streptococcus 008.49
- anaerobic 008.46
- Strongyloides stercoralis 127.2
- Trichuris trichiuria 127.3
- virus NEC (see also Enteritis, viral) 008.69
- prostaglandin induced 579.8
- Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
- Gordon's (exudative enteropathy) 579.8
- Disturbance - see also Disease
- Enteropathy 569.9
- exudative (of Gordon) 579.8
- protein-losing 579.8
- Fat
- indigestion 579.8
- Gastroenteropathy, protein-losing 579.8
- Gastropathy 537.9
- exudative 579.8
- Gordon's disease (exudative enteropathy) 579.8
- Indigestion (bilious) (functional) 536.8
- fat 579.8
- Intolerance
- carbohydrate NEC 579.8
- fat NEC 579.8
- foods NEC 579.8
- milk NEC 579.8
- starch NEC 579.8
- Malabsorption 579.9
- calcium 579.8
- carbohydrate 579.8
- drug-induced 579.8
- due to bacterial overgrowth 579.8
- fat 579.8
- protein 579.8
- Steatorrhea (chronic) 579.8
- with lacteal obstruction 579.2
- pancreatic 579.4
- primary 579.0
- secondary 579.8
- specified cause NEC 579.8
- tropical 579.1
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