N04.6
Nephrotic syndrome with dense deposit disease
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 9 never code together
N00-N99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 5
Index entries leading here 4
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- dense deposit N05.6
- Glomerulonephritis N05.9
- Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) N05.9
Alongside this code 11 same parent — N04
N04.0 Nephrotic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormality N04.1 Nephrotic syndrome w focal and segmental glomerular lesions N04.2 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse membranous glomerulonephritis category N04.3 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse mesangial prolif glomrlneph N04.4 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse endocaplry prolif glomrlneph N04.5 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse mesangiocapillary glomrlneph N04.7 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis N04.8 Nephrotic syndrome with other morphologic changes N04.9 Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes N04.A Nephrotic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis N04.B Neph synd with imm cmplx membr prolif glomrlneph (IC-MPGN) category
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