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D56.0

Alpha thalassemia

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Hierarchy

  • D50-D89 Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)
    • D55-D59 Hemolytic anemias (D55-D59)
      • D56 Thalassemia
        • D56.0 Alpha thalassemia
        • D56.1 Beta thalassemia
        • D56.2 Delta-beta thalassemia
        • D56.3 Thalassemia minor
        • D56.4 Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin [HPFH]
        • D56.5 Hemoglobin E-beta thalassemia
        • D56.8 Other thalassemias
        • D56.9 Thalassemia, unspecified

Inclusion Terms

D56.0

  • Alpha thalassemia major
  • Hemoglobin H Constant Spring
  • Hemoglobin H disease
  • Hydrops fetalis due to alpha thalassemia
  • Severe alpha thalassemia
  • Triple gene defect alpha thalassemia

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D56.0

  • code, if applicable, for hydrops fetalis due to alpha thalassemia (P56.99)
    • P56.99 Hydrops fetalis due to other hemolytic disease

Excludes 1

D56.0

  • alpha thalassemia trait or minor (D56.3)
    • D56.3 Thalassemia minor
  • asymptomatic alpha thalassemia (D56.3)
    • D56.3 Thalassemia minor
  • P56.0 Hydrops fetalis due to isoimmunization
  • hydrops fetalis not due to immune hemolysis (P83.2)
    • P83.2 Hydrops fetalis not due to hemolytic disease

D56

  • D57.4 Sickle-cell thalassemia

Excludes 2

D50-D89

  • autoimmune disease (systemic) NOS (M35.9)
    • M35.9 Systemic involvement of connective tissue, unspecified
  • P00-P96 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
    • O00-O9A Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • Q00-Q99 Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • B20 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease
  • S00-T88 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • C00-D49 Neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)