E40 Kwashiorkor

• E40
  Description: Kwashiorkor
  Exclude1:
  • marasmic kwashiorkor (E42)
  Inclusion Term:
  • Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair
  ↓
• E40-E46
  Description: Malnutrition (E40-E46)
  Exclude1:
  • intestinal malabsorption (K90.-)
  • sequelae of protein-calorie malnutrition (E64.0)
  Exclude2:
  • nutritional anemias (D50-D53)
  • starvation (T73.0)
  ↓
• E00-E89
  Description: Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  Exclude1:
  • transitory endocrine and metabolic disorders specific to newborn (P70-P74)
  Notes:
  • All neoplasms, whether functionally active or not, are classified in Chapter 2. Appropriate codes in this chapter (i.e. E05.8, E07.0, E16-E31, E34.-) may be used as additional codes to indicate either functional activity by neoplasms and ectopic endocrine tissue or hyperfunction and hypofunction of endocrine glands associated with neoplasms and other conditions classified elsewhere.