Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 259.8
Other specified endocrine disorders
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • ICD-9-CM 259.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 259.8 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 259.8 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM E34.8 Other specified endocrine disorders
Approximate Synonyms
  • Abnormal 17-ketosteroids
  • Abnormal 3,3' diiodothyronine
  • Abnormal corticotropin releasing factor
  • Abnormal oxytocin
  • Abnormal pituitary follicle stimulating hormone
  • Abnormal pituitary gonadotropin
  • Abnormal polypeptide hormone
  • Abnormal protein hormone
  • Abnormal steroid hormone
  • Abnormal testosterone
  • Acrogeria
  • Androgen resistance syndrome
  • Combination of endocrine dysfunction
  • Complex gonadal endocrine disorder
  • Complex pituitary endocrine disorder
  • Cyst of pineal gland
  • Decreased hormonal activity
  • Disorder of endocrine receptor
  • Endocrine andrology disorder
  • Endocrine axis dysfunction
  • Endocrine disorder related to puberty
  • Extreme insulin resistance with acanthosis nigricans, hirsutism AND autoantibodies to the insulin receptors
  • Functional disease of the CNS with neuroendocrine disturbance
  • Gynecological endocrinology disorder
  • Hormonal resistance
  • Hormone absence
  • Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome
  • Hyperthermia-hyperphagia-hypothyroidism syndrome
  • Hypothalamic obesity
  • Hypothalamic pseudopuberty
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis dysfunction
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis dysfunction
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis dysfunction
  • Increased hormonal requirement
  • Insulin receptor defect
  • Leprechaunism syndrome
  • Metageria
  • Mullerian inhibiting factor deficiency
  • Neonatal pseudo-hydrocephalic progeroid syndrome
  • Non-pancreatic hypersecretion of intestinal hormones
  • Pineal gland disorder
  • Pineal gland dysfunction
  • Pineal hyperplasia AND diabetes mellitus syndrome
  • Placental aromatase deficiency
  • Premature aging syndrome
  • Progeria syndrome
  • Pseudohypoaldosteronism, type 1, recessive form
  • Pseudopuberty
  • Refetoff syndrome
  • Werner syndrome
  • Wrinkly skin syndrome
Clinical Information
  • Autosomal recessive disorder that causes premature aging in adults, characterized by sclerodermal skin changes, cataracts, subcutaneous calcifications, muscular atrophy, a tendency to diabetes mellitus, aged appearance of the face, baldness, and a high incidence of neoplastic disease
  • Werner syndrome (ws) is an inherited disease characterized by an early onset of atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, and cancers of non-epithelial cell origin. Cultured cells from ws patients also present a shortened replicative lifespan and increased genetic instability. The genomic instability of ws cells is manifested at the cytogenetic level in the form of chromosome breaks and translocations, and at the molecular level predominately by multiple, large dna deletions. (j. Biol. Chem., 273(51):34139-34144, 1998)
Applies To
  • Pineal gland dysfunction
  • Progeria
  • Werner's syndrome
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 259.8:
  • Abscess (acute) (chronic) (infectional) (lymphangitic) (metastatic) (multiple) (pyogenic) (septic) (with lymphangitis) (see also Cellulitis) 682.9
    • ductless gland 259.8
  • Calcification
    • pineal gland 259.8
  • Cyst (mucus) (retention) (serous) (simple)
    • epiphysis cerebri 259.8
  • Degeneration, degenerative
    • pineal gland 259.8
  • Diabetes, diabetic (brittle) (congenital) (familial) (mellitus) (severe) (slight) (without complication) 250.0
    • glycogenosis, secondary 250.8 [259.8]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [259.8]
  • Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
    • carotid gland 259.8
    • endocrine glands or system NEC 259.9
      • specified NEC 259.8
    • Gilford (-Hutchinson) (progeria) 259.8
    • Hutchinson-Gilford (progeria) 259.8
    • pineal gland 259.8
    • Werner's (progeria adultorum) 259.8
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • endocrine 259.9
      • specified type NEC 259.8
  • Donohue's syndrome (leprechaunism) 259.8
  • Dysfunction
    • pineal gland 259.8
  • Gilford (-Hutchinson) disease or syndrome (progeria) 259.8
  • Glycogenosis (see also Disease, glycogen storage) 271.0
    • diabetic, secondary 250.8 [259.8]
      • due to secondary diabetes 249.8 [259.8]
  • Hutchinson-Gilford disease or syndrome (progeria) 259.8
  • Hyperpinealism 259.8
  • Hypopinealism 259.8
  • Leprechaunism 259.8
  • Pellizzi's syndrome (pineal) 259.8
  • Perversion, perverted
    • function
      • pineal gland 259.8
      • pituitary gland 253.9
      • placenta - see Placenta, abnormal
  • Premature - see also condition
    • senility (syndrome) 259.8
  • Presenile - see also condition
    • aging 259.8
  • Presenility 259.8
  • Progeria (adultorum) (syndrome) 259.8
  • Puberty V21.1
    • precocious (constitutional) (cryptogenic) (idiopathic) NEC 259.1
      • due to
        • adrenal
        • cortical hyperfunction 255.2
        • ovarian hyperfunction 256.1
        • pineal tumor 259.8
        • testicular hyperfunction 257.0
    • premature 259.1
      • due to
        • adrenal cortical hyperfunction 255.2
        • pineal tumor 259.8
        • pituitary (anterior) hyperfunction 253.1
  • Senile (see also condition) 797
    • syndrome 259.8
  • Senility 797
    • premature (syndrome) 259.8
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • Donohue's (leprechaunism) 259.8
    • Gilford (-Hutchinson) (progeria) 259.8
    • Hutchinson-Gilford (progeria) 259.8
    • macrogenitosomia praecox 259.8
    • Pellizzi's (pineal) 259.8
    • pineal 259.8
    • premature senility 259.8
    • progeria 259.8
    • senilism 259.8
    • trigeminal plate 259.8
    • Werner's (progeria adultorum) 259.8
  • Werner's disease or syndrome (progeria adultorum) 259.8
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