Chapter III
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
(D50-D89)

Rules Conventions GCS

Nutritional anaemias
(D50-D53)

D50 Iron deficiency anaemia
DCS.XV.32

Incl.:
anaemia:
  • asiderotic
  • hypochromic
D50.0 Iron deficiency anaemia secondary to blood loss (chronic)
Incl.:
Posthaemorrhagic anaemia (chronic)
Excl.:
acute posthaemorrhagic anaemia ( D62)
congenital anaemia from fetal blood loss ( P61.3)
D50.1 Sideropenic dysphagia
Incl.:
Kelly-Paterson syndrome
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
D50.8 Other iron deficiency anaemias
D50.9 Iron deficiency anaemia, unspecified

D51 Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia
DCS.XV.32

Excl.:
Vitamin B 12 deficiency ( E53.8)
D51.0 Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia due to intrinsic factor deficiency
Incl.:
Anaemia:
  • Addison
  • Biermer
  • pernicious (congenital)
Congenital intrinsic factor deficiency
D51.1 Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia due to selective vitamin B12 malabsorption with proteinuria
Incl.:
Imerslund(-Gräsbeck) syndrome
Megaloblastic hereditary anaemia
D51.2 Transcobalamin II deficiency
D51.3 Other dietary vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia
Incl.:
Vegan anaemia
D51.8 Other vitamin B12 deficiency anaemias
D51.9 Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia, unspecified

D52 Folate deficiency anaemia
DCS.XV.32

D52.0 Dietary folate deficiency anaemia
Incl.:
Nutritional megaloblastic anaemia
D52.1 Drug-induced folate deficiency anaemia
Coding-Hint
Use additional external cause code (Chapter XX), if desired, to identify drug.
D52.8 Other folate deficiency anaemias
D52.9 Folate deficiency anaemia, unspecified
Incl.:
Folic acid deficiency anaemia NOS

D53 Other nutritional anaemias
DCS.XV.32

Incl.:
megaloblastic anaemia unresponsive to vitamin B 12 or folate therapy
D53.0 Protein deficiency anaemia
Incl.:
Amino-acid deficiency anaemia
Orotaciduric anaemia
Excl.:
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome ( E79.1)
D53.1 Other megaloblastic anaemias, not elsewhere classified
Incl.:
Megaloblastic anaemia NOS
Excl.:
Di Guglielmo disease ( C94.0)
D53.2 Scorbutic anaemia
Excl.:
scurvy ( E54)
D53.8 Other specified nutritional anaemias
Incl.:
Anaemia associated with deficiency of:
  • copper
  • molybdenum
  • zinc
Excl.:
nutritional deficiencies without mention of anaemia, such as:
  • copper deficiency (E61.0)
  • molybdenum deficiency (E61.5)
  • zinc deficiency (E60)
D53.9 Nutritional anaemia, unspecified
Incl.:
Simple chronic anaemia
Excl.:
anaemia NOS ( D64.9)