Diagnosis Code: 281.2

Short Description: Folate-deficiency anemia

Long Description: Folate-deficiency anemia

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (280–289)
  • Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (280-289)
    • 281 Other deficiency anemias
      • 281.2 Folate-deficiency anemia

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 281.2 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Anemia 285.9
  • deficiency 281.9
    • folate 281.2
      • dietary 281.2
      • drug-induced 281.2
    • folic acid 281.2
      • dietary 281.2
      • drug-induced 281.2
  • folate (folic acid) deficiency 281.2
    • dietary 281.2
    • drug-induced 281.2
  • folate malabsorption, congenital 281.2
  • folic acid deficiency 281.2
    • dietary 281.2
    • drug-induced 281.2
  • goat's milk 281.2
  • macrocytic 281.9
    • nutritional 281.2
    • tropical 281.2
  • megaloblastic 281.9
    • nutritional (of infancy) 281.2
    • of infancy 281.2
  • nutritional (deficiency) 281.9
    • megaloblastic (of infancy) 281.2
  • tropical, macrocytic 281.2
  • Zuelzer (-Ogden) (nutritional megaloblastic anemia) 281.2

• Deficiency, deficient
  • dihydrofolate reductase 281.2
  • folate, anemia 281.2
  • folic acid (vitamin BC)�266.2
    • anemia 281.2

• Malabsorption 579.9
  • folate, congenital 281.2

• Syndrome - see also Disease
  • Zuelzer-Ogden (nutritional megaloblastic anemia) 281.2

• Zuelzer (-Ogden) anemia or syndrome (nutritional megaloblastic anemia) 281.2

Crosswalk Information

The code 281.2 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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