ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of small intestine
DA96 — Intestinal malabsorption or protein-losing enteropathy
DA96.0 — Intestinal malabsorption

ICD-11 DA96.0 — Intestinal malabsorption

Intestinal malabsorption (syndrome) occurs due to pathological interference with the normal physiological sequence of digestion (intraluminal process), absorption (mucosal process), and transport (post-mucosal events) of nutrients in the small intestine. The concept of intestinal failure is a life-threatening severe type of intestinal malabsorption due to short bowel, structural enterocyte defects, and intestinal dysmotility etc.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

Diagnosis with code DA96.0 contains 9 clarifying diagnoses:

1. DA96.00 — Bacterial overgrowth syndrome
2. DA96.01 — Tropical sprue
3. DA96.02 — Malabsorption or intolerance of specific nutrients
   It contains 1 clarifying diagnosis.
4. DA96.04 — Short bowel syndrome
   It contains 1 clarifying diagnosis.
5. DA96.05 — Intestinal failure
6. DE13 — Postsurgical malabsorption, not elsewhere classified
7. KB89 — Neonatal malabsorption syndromes
   It contains 6 clarifying diagnoses.
8. DA96.0Y — Other specified intestinal malabsorption
9. DA96.0Z — Intestinal malabsorption, unspecified