Nephrotic syndrome
Non-billable header
N04 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- congenital nephrotic syndrome
- lipoid nephrosis
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- hypertensive chronic kidney disease (I12.-)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
More specific codes N04
- N04.0Nephrotic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormalityBillable
- N04.1Nephrotic syndrome with focal and segmental glomerular lesionsBillable
- N04.2Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse membranous glomerulonephritisHeader
- N04.3Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritisBillable
- N04.4Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritisBillable
- N04.5Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritisBillable
- N04.6Nephrotic syndrome with dense deposit diseaseBillable
- N04.7Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritisBillable
- N04.8Nephrotic syndrome with other morphologic changesBillable
- N04.9Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changesBillable
- N04.ANephrotic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritisBillable
- N04.BNephrotic syndrome with immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN)Header
Related codes
- N00Acute nephritic syndromeHeader
- N01Rapidly progressive nephritic syndromeHeader
- N02Recurrent and persistent hematuriaHeader
- N03Chronic nephritic syndromeHeader
- N05Unspecified nephritic syndromeHeader
- N06Isolated proteinuria with specified morphological lesionHeader
- N07Hereditary nephropathy, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
- N08Glomerular disorders in diseases classified elsewhereBillable