ICD-10-CM code "K59.31": Toxic megacolon (2024)

Overview

Excludes

  1. Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95)

    Type 2certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)

    Type 2certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

    Type 2complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)

    Type 2congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)

    Type 2endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)

    Type 2injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

    Type 2neoplasms (C00-D49)

    Type 2symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

  2. Other diseases of intestines (K55-K64)
  3. Other functional intestinal disorders (K59)

    Type 1change in bowel habit NOS (R19.4)

    Type 1intestinal malabsorption (K90.-)

    Type 1psychogenic intestinal disorders (F45.8)

    Type 2functional disorders of stomach (K31.-)

  4. Megacolon, not elsewhere classified (K59.3)

    Type 1congenital megacolon (aganglionic) (Q43.1)

    Type 1megacolon (due to) (in) Chagas' disease (B57.32)

    Type 1megacolon (due to) (in) Clostridium difficile (A04.7-)

    Type 1megacolon (due to) (in) Hirschsprung's disease (Q43.1)

  5. Toxic megacolon (K59.31)