Chapter 3
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
D50-D89
This chapter covers disorders of the blood and blood-forming organs, along with certain immune mechanism disorders, most commonly anemias, coagulation defects, and sickle-cell disease. Many anemia codes require identifying an underlying cause elsewhere in the classification.
Sections
- D50-D53Nutritional anemias
- D55-D59Hemolytic anemias
- D60-D64Aplastic and other anemias and other bone marrow failure syndromes
- D65-D69Coagulation defects, purpura and other hemorrhagic conditions
- D70-D77Other disorders of blood and blood-forming organs
- D78Intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen
- D80-D89Certain disorders involving the immune mechanism