Nutritional anemias (D50-D53)

D50Iron deficiency anemia
Includes: asiderotic anemia
› hypochromic anemia

D50.0Iron deficiency anemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)
› Posthemorrhagic anemia (chronic)
Excludes 1: acute posthemorrhagic anemia (D62)
› congenital anemia from fetal blood loss (P61.3)

D50.1Sideropenic dysphagia
› Kelly-Paterson syndrome
› Plummer-Vinson syndrome

D50.8Other iron deficiency anemias
› Iron deficiency anemia due to inadequate dietary iron intake

D50.9Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified

D51Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Excludes 1: vitamin B12 deficiency (E53.8)

D51.0Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to intrinsic factor deficiency
› Addison anemia
› Biermer anemia
› Pernicious (congenital) anemia
› Congenital intrinsic factor deficiency

D51.1Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due to selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria
› Imerslund (Gräsbeck) syndrome
› Megaloblastic hereditary anemia

D51.2Transcobalamin II deficiency

D51.3Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
› Vegan anemia

D51.8Other vitamin B12 deficiency anemias

D51.9Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia, unspecified

D52Folate deficiency anemia
Excludes 1: folate deficiency without anemia (E53.8)

D52.0Dietary folate deficiency anemia
› Nutritional megaloblastic anemia

D52.1Drug-induced folate deficiency anemia
Use Additional Code: code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50) with fifth or sixth character 5)

D52.8Other folate deficiency anemias

D52.9Folate deficiency anemia, unspecified
› Folic acid deficiency anemia NOS

D53Other nutritional anemias
Includes: megaloblastic anemia unresponsive to vitamin B12 or folate therapy

D53.0Protein deficiency anemia
› Amino-acid deficiency anemia
› Orotaciduric anemia
Excludes 1: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (E79.1)

D53.1Other megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
› Megaloblastic anemia NOS
Excludes 1: Di Guglielmo's disease (C94.0)

D53.2Scorbutic anemia
Excludes 1: scurvy (E54)

D53.8Other specified nutritional anemias
› Anemia associated with deficiency of copper
› Anemia associated with deficiency of molybdenum
› Anemia associated with deficiency of zinc
Excludes 2: nutritional deficiencies without anemia, such as:
› copper deficiency NOS (E61.0)
› molybdenum deficiency NOS (E61.5)
› zinc deficiency NOS (E60)

D53.9Nutritional anemia, unspecified
› Simple chronic anemia
Excludes 1: anemia NOS (D64.9)