270.0 - Disturbances Of Amino-acid Transport

The ICD 9 Code for Disturbances of amino-acid transport is listed as 270.0.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.

ICD 9 CM Field	Value
Diagnosis Code:	270.0
Long Description:	Disturbances of amino-acid transport
Short Description:	Amino-acid transport dis

Chapter:	Endocrine, Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases, And Immunity Disorders
Block:	Other Metabolic Disorders And Immunity Disorders (270-279)
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.00 - Disorders of amino-acid transport, unspecified (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.01 - Cystinuria (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.04 - Cystinosis (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.09 - Other disorders of amino-acid transport (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 270.0:
270.1 - Phenylketonuria [PKU]
270.2 - Other disturbances of aromatic amino-acid metabolism
270.3 - Disturbances of branched-chain amino-acid metabolism
270.4 - Disturbances of sulphur-bearing amino-acid metabolism
270.5 - Disturbances of histidine metabolism
270.6 - Disorders of urea cycle metabolism
270.7 - Other disturbances of straight-chain amino-acid metabolism
270.8 - Other specified disorders of amino-acid metabolism
270.9 - Unspecified disorder of amino-acid metabolism