270.6 - Disorders Of Urea Cycle Metabolism

The ICD 9 Code for Disorders of urea cycle metabolism is listed as 270.6.
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:	270.6
Long Description:	Disorders of urea cycle metabolism
Short Description:	Dis urea cycle metabol

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:	E72.20 - Disorder of urea cycle metabolism, unspecified (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.22 - Arginosuccinic aciduria (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.23 - Citrullinemia (approximate)
ICD-10-CM Code:	E72.29 - Other disorders of urea cycle metabolism (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 270.6:
270.0 - Disturbances of amino-acid transport
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
270.7 - 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