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N04 - Nephrotic syndrome

ICD-10-CM Chapter 14: Diseases of the genitourinary system · N00-N08 Glomerular diseases (N00-N08) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

N04 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 12 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

IncludesFrom N04

Conditions this code covers.

  • congenital nephrotic syndrome
  • lipoid nephrosis
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom N00-N08 Glomerular diseases (N00-N08)

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • hypertensive chronic kidney disease (I12.-)
Code AlsoFrom N00-N08 Glomerular diseases (N00-N08)

Report an additional code when both conditions apply.

  • any associated kidney failure (N17-N19).
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter N00-N99

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • 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)

More Specific Codes (12)

N04.0Nephrotic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormality→N04.1Nephrotic syndrome with focal and segmental glomerular lesions→N04.2Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse membranous glomerulonephritis→N04.3Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis→N04.4Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis→N04.5Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis→N04.6Nephrotic syndrome with dense deposit disease→N04.7Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis→N04.8Nephrotic syndrome with other morphologic changes→N04.9Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes→N04.ANephrotic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis→N04.BNephrotic syndrome with immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN)→

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