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List of Diseases and Injuries

Other nutritional deficiencies (E50-E64)


Excludes 2: nutritional anemias (D50-D53)

E50Vitamin A deficiency
Excludes 1: sequelae of vitamin A deficiency (E64.1)

E50.0Vitamin A deficiency with conjunctival xerosis

E50.1Vitamin A deficiency with Bitot's spot and conjunctival xerosis
› Bitot's spot in the young child

E50.2Vitamin A deficiency with corneal xerosis

E50.3Vitamin A deficiency with corneal ulceration and xerosis

E50.4Vitamin A deficiency with keratomalacia

E50.5Vitamin A deficiency with night blindness

E50.6Vitamin A deficiency with xerophthalmic scars of cornea

E50.7Other ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency
› Xerophthalmia NOS

E50.8Other manifestations of vitamin A deficiency
› Follicular keratosis
› Xeroderma

E50.9Vitamin A deficiency, unspecified
› Hypovitaminosis A NOS

E51Thiamine deficiency
Excludes 1: sequelae of thiamine deficiency (E64.8)

E51.1Beriberi

E51.11Dry beriberi
› Beriberi NOS
› Beriberi with polyneuropathy

E51.12Wet beriberi
› Beriberi with cardiovascular manifestations
› Cardiovascular beriberi
› Shoshin disease

E51.2Wernicke's encephalopathy

E51.8Other manifestations of thiamine deficiency

E51.9Thiamine deficiency, unspecified

E52Niacin deficiency [pellagra]
› Niacin (-tryptophan) deficiency
› Nicotinamide deficiency
› Pellagra (alcoholic)

Excludes 1: sequelae of niacin deficiency (E64.8)

E53Deficiency of other B group vitamins
Excludes 1: sequelae of vitamin B deficiency (E64.8)

E53.0Riboflavin deficiency
› Ariboflavinosis
› Vitamin B2 deficiency

E53.1Pyridoxine deficiency
› Vitamin B6 deficiency

Excludes 1: pyridoxine-responsive sideroblastic anemia (D64.3)

E53.8Deficiency of other specified B group vitamins
› Biotin deficiency
› Cyanocobalamin deficiency
› Folate deficiency
› Folic acid deficiency
› Pantothenic acid deficiency
› Vitamin B12 deficiency

Excludes 1: folate deficiency anemia (D52.-)
› vitamin B12 deficiency anemia (D51.-)

E53.9Vitamin B deficiency, unspecified

E54Ascorbic acid deficiency
› Deficiency of vitamin C
› Scurvy

Excludes 1: scorbutic anemia (D53.2)
› sequelae of vitamin C deficiency (E64.2)

E55Vitamin D deficiency
Excludes 1: adult osteomalacia (M83.-)
› osteoporosis (M80.-)
› sequelae of rickets (E64.3)

E55.0Rickets, active
› Infantile osteomalacia
› Juvenile osteomalacia

Excludes 1: celiac rickets (K90.0)
› Crohn's rickets (K50.-)
› hereditary vitamin D-dependent rickets (E83.32)
› inactive rickets (E64.3)
› renal rickets (N25.0)
› sequelae of rickets (E64.3)
› vitamin D-resistant rickets (E83.31)

E55.9Vitamin D deficiency, unspecified
› Avitaminosis D

E56Other vitamin deficiencies
Excludes 1: sequelae of other vitamin deficiencies (E64.8)

E56.0Deficiency of vitamin E

E56.1Deficiency of vitamin K
Excludes 1: deficiency of coagulation factor due to vitamin K deficiency (D68.4)
› vitamin K deficiency of newborn (P53)

E56.8Deficiency of other vitamins

E56.9Vitamin deficiency, unspecified

E58Dietary calcium deficiency
Excludes 1: disorders of calcium metabolism (E83.5-)
› sequelae of calcium deficiency (E64.8)

E59Dietary selenium deficiency
› Keshan disease

Excludes 1: sequelae of selenium deficiency (E64.8)

E60Dietary zinc deficiency

E61Deficiency of other nutrient elements
Use Additional Code: code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50) with fifth or sixth character 5)

Excludes 1: disorders of mineral metabolism (E83.-)
› iodine deficiency related thyroid disorders (E00-E02)
› sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E64.-)

E61.0Copper deficiency

E61.1Iron deficiency
Excludes 1: iron deficiency anemia (D50.-)

E61.2Magnesium deficiency

E61.3Manganese deficiency

E61.4Chromium deficiency

E61.5Molybdenum deficiency

E61.6Vanadium deficiency

E61.7Deficiency of multiple nutrient elements

E61.8Deficiency of other specified nutrient elements

E61.9Deficiency of nutrient element, unspecified

E63Other nutritional deficiencies
Excludes 2: dehydration (E86.0)
› failure to thrive, adult (R62.7)
› failure to thrive, child (R62.51)
› feeding problems in newborn (P92.-)
› sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E64.-)

E63.0Essential fatty acid [EFA] deficiency

E63.1Imbalance of constituents of food intake

E63.8Other specified nutritional deficiencies

E63.9Nutritional deficiency, unspecified

E64Sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies


This category is to be used to indicate conditions in categories E43, E44, E46, E50-E63 as the cause of sequelae, which are themselves classified elsewhere. The 'sequelae' include conditions specified as such; they also include the late effects of diseases classifiable to the above categories if the disease itself is no longer present


Code First: condition resulting from (sequela) of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies

E64.0Sequelae of protein-calorie malnutrition
Excludes 2: retarded development following protein-calorie malnutrition (E45)

E64.1Sequelae of vitamin A deficiency

E64.2Sequelae of vitamin C deficiency

E64.3Sequelae of rickets

E64.8Sequelae of other nutritional deficiencies

E64.9Sequelae of unspecified nutritional deficiency