ICD-10-CM Codes Browse (Tabular) Diagnostic External Drug Neoplasm

E40 – Kwashiorkor

Coding Notes

Active

Billable, valid for HIPAA-covered transactions

Type 1 Excludes

marasmic kwashiorkor (E42)

Applicable To

Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair

GEM Conversion to ICD-9 CM

260

Fs: 10000 – Kwashiorkor

MDC / MS-DRG Reference

DRG 640

MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC

DRG 641

MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC

Back Reference of Diagnostic Codes

Edema, edematous (infectious) (pitting) (toxic) R60.9

nutritional See also Malnutrition, severe

with dyspigmentation, skin and hair E40

Kwashiorkor E40

Malnutrition E46

malignant E40

Pluricarential syndrome of infancy E40

Polycarential syndrome of infancy E40

Syndrome See also Disease

pluricarential of infancy E40

plurideficiency E40

polycarential of infancy E40

Sibling Codes

E41

Nutritional marasmus

E42

Marasmic kwashiorkor

E43

Unspecified severe protein-calorie malnutrition

E44

Protein-calorie malnutrition of moderate and mild degree

E45

Retarded development following protein-calorie malnutrition

E46

Unspecified protein-calorie malnutrition

View in Tabular

Code	Title
E00-E89	Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89)
E40-E46	Malnutrition (E40-E46)
E40	Kwashiorkor Type 1 Excludes marasmic kwashiorkor (E42) Applicable to Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair