J67.8 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to other organic dusts

Instructional Notes:

J67.8
Description: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to other organic dusts
Inclusion Term:
- Cheese-washer's lung
- Coffee-worker's lung
- Fish-meal worker's lung
- Furrier's lung
- Sequoiosis
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J67
Description: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to organic dust
Exclude1:
- pneumonitis due to inhalation of chemicals, gases, fumes or vapors (J68.0)
Include:
- allergic alveolitis and pneumonitis due to inhaled organic dust and particles of fungal, actinomycetic or other origin
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J60-J70
Description: Lung diseases due to external agents (J60-J70)
Exclude2:
- asthma (J45.-)
- malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.-)
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J00-J99
Description: Diseases of the respiratory system
Exclude2:
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- smoke inhalation (T59.81-)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Notes:
- When a respiratory condition is described as occurring in more than one site and is not specifically indexed, it should be classified to the lower anatomic site (e.g. tracheobronchitis to bronchitis in J40).
Use Additional Code:
- code, where applicable, to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)