2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code E72

Other disorders of amino-acid metabolism

  • E72 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
  • The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM E72 became effective on October 1, 2024.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of E72 – other international versions of ICD-10 E72 may differ.

Type 1 Excludes

  • disorders of:
  • aromatic amino-acid metabolism (E70.-)
  • branched-chain amino-acid metabolism (E71.0-E71.2)
  • fatty-acid metabolism (E71.3)
  • purine and pyrimidine metabolism (E79.-)
  • gout (M1A.-, M10.-)

The following code(s) above E72 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to E72:

  • E00-E89  Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • E70-E88  Metabolic disorders

Code 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
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