K90

Clinical Information

• A disorder characterized by inadequate absorption of nutrients in the small intestine. Symptoms include abdominal marked discomfort, bloating and diarrhea.

• A group of symptoms such as gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea resulting from the body’s inability to properly absorb nutrients.

• A syndrome resulting from the inadequate absorption of nutrients in the small intestine. Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, and diarrhea.

• General term for a group of malnutrition syndromes caused by failure of normal intestinal absorption of nutrients.

• Impaired absorption of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract.

• Malabsorption: decreased absorption of fat and other nutrients caused by liver, biliary, pancreatic or intestinal disease. The 72-hour fecal fat determination is the best single test for mal- absorption.

• Your small intestine does most of the digesting of the foods you eat. If you have a malabsorption syndrome, your small intestine cannot absorb nutrients from foods.causes of malabsorption syndromes include

Details

• Postsurgical blind loop syndrome

• K90.0

  Celiac disease

• K90.1

  Tropical sprue

• K90.2

  Blind loop syndrome, not elsewhere classified

• K90.3

  Pancreatic steatorrhea

• K90.4

  Other malabsorption due to intolerance

• K90.41

  Non-celiac gluten sensitivity

• K90.49

  Malabsorption due to intolerance, not elsewhere classified

• K90.8

  Other intestinal malabsorption

• K90.81

  Whipple’s disease

• K90.89

  Other intestinal malabsorption

• K90.9

  Intestinal malabsorption, unspecified