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Pernicious anemia; Other names: Vitamin B 12 deficiency anemia, Biermer's anemia, [1] Addison's anemia, [2] Addison–Biermer anemia [3] Micrograph showing nodular enterochromaffin-like cell hyperplasia, as demonstrated with chromogranin A immunostaining, in the body of the stomach. Parietal cells are not readily apparent.
An Addisonian crisis (or Addison's crisis) is an acute, life-threatening crisis caused by Addison's disease. Pernicious anemia as described in 1849 by Addison is now also known as Addison-Biermer disease. It is a type of megaloblastic anemia, in which a lack of intrinsic factor causes absorption of vitamin B 12 to be impaired. It is caused by a ...
Most people with Addison's disease develop or have a preexisting autoimmune disease. [15] Particularly common comorbid conditions are autoimmune thyroid disease (40% of people with Addison's), premature ovarian failure (up to 16% of people with Addison's), type 1 diabetes (11%), pernicious anemia (10%), vitiligo (6%) and celiac disease (2%). [15]
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
This diagnosis was proposed in 1964 by a famous surgeon, Sir Vincent Zachary Cope, in a short two-page article published in the British Medical Journal. The disease referred to a chronic progressive adrenal insufficiency, and was described in 1855 by the Englishman Thomas Addison, who gave it his name, Addison's disease. [9]
The most common cause of primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) overall is autoimmune adrenalitis. [2] The prevalence of Addison's disease ranges from 5 to 221 per million in different countries. [30] In children, congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is the most common cause of adrenal insufficiency, with an incidence 1 in 14,200 ...
This is a shortened version of the fourth chapter of the ICD-9: Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs. It covers ICD codes 280 to 289. The full chapter can be found on pages 167 to 175 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.
Addison's disease; Adrenal crisis; ... [10] [11] [12] See also. List of MeSH codes (C19) List of ICD-9 codes 240-279: Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases ...