ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Nutritional disorders
Undernutrition
5B58 — Vitamin E deficiency

ICD-11 5B58 — Vitamin E deficiency

Vitamin E deficiency is a condition that causes haemolysis and/or neurologic manifestations. Red blood cell fragility occurs and can produce a haemolytic anaemia. Neuronal degeneration produces peripheral neuropathies, ophthalmoplegia, and destruction of posterior columns of spinal cord. Neurologic disease is frequently irreversible if deficiency is not corrected early enough. Vitamin E deficiency may also contribute to the haemolytic anaemia and retrolental fibroplasia seen in premature infants.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

Diagnosis with code 5B58 contains 1 clarifying diagnosis:

1. 3A03.6 — Acquired vitamin E deficiency anaemia