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E79

Non-Billable (Header)

Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • Ataxia-telangiectasia (Q87.19)
  • Bloom's syndrome (Q82.8)
  • Cockayne's syndrome (Q87.19)
  • calculus of kidney (N20.0)
  • combined immunodeficiency disorders (D81.-)
  • Fanconi's anemia (D61.09)
  • gout (M1A.-, M10.-)
  • orotaciduric anemia (D53.0)
  • progeria (E34.8)
  • Werner's syndrome (E34.8)
  • xeroderma pigmentosum (Q82.1)

Child Codes

E79.0Hyperuricemia without signs of inflammatory arthritis and tophaceous disease
E79.1Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
HCC 50
E79.2Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency
E79.8Other disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism
E79.9Disorder of purine and pyrimidine metabolism, unspecified

Code Hierarchy

└E79Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism
└E79Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

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