Marasmic kwashiorkor
- E42 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM E42 became effective on October 1, 2024.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of E42 – other international versions of ICD-10 E42 may differ.
Applicable To
- Intermediate form severe protein-calorie malnutrition
- Severe protein-calorie malnutrition with signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus
The following code(s) above E42 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to E42:
ICD-10-CM E42 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v42.0):
- 640 Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc
- 641 Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes without mcc
Convert E42 to ICD-9-CMCode History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
- 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change
Code annotations containing back-references to E42:
- Type 1 Excludes: E40, E41
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to E42:
- Deficiency, deficient
- calorie, severeE43
- with marasmusE41
- and kwashiorkor E42
- with marasmusE41
- calorie, severeE43
- KwashiorkorE40
- marasmic, marasmus type E42
- MalnutritionE46
- degree
- severe (protein-energy) E43
- intermediate form E42
- with
- kwashiorkor E42
- with
- intermediate form E42
- severe (protein-energy) E43
- proteinE46
- calorieE46
- severeE43
- intermediate form E42
- with
- kwashiorkor E42 (and marasmus)
- with
- intermediate form E42
- severeE43
- energyE46
- severeE43
- intermediate form E42
- with
- kwashiorkor E42 (and marasmus)
- with
- intermediate form E42
- severeE43
- calorieE46
- severe (protein-energy) E43
- with
- kwashiorkorE40
- with marasmus E42
- kwashiorkorE40
- intermediate form E42
- with
- kwashiorkor E42 (and marasmus)
- with
- with
- degree