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The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) was an adaptation created by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and used in assigning diagnostic and procedure codes associated with inpatient, outpatient, and physician office utilization in the United States. The ICD-9-CM is based on the ICD-9 but ...
The ICD-10 established a set of diagnostic criteria for PCS in 1992. [38] In order to meet these criteria, a patient has had a head injury "usually sufficiently severe to result in loss of consciousness" [ 33 ] [ 39 ] and then develop at least three of the eight symptoms marked with a check mark in the table at right under "ICD-10" within four ...
The International Classification of Headache Disorders ( ICHD) is a detailed hierarchical classification of all headache -related disorders published by the International Headache Society. [ 1] It is considered the official classification of headaches by the World Health Organization, and, in 1992, was incorporated into the 10th edition of ...
Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome ( RCVS, sometimes called Call-Fleming syndrome) is a disease characterized by a weeks-long course of thunderclap headaches, sometimes focal neurologic signs, and occasionally seizures. [ 1] Symptoms are thought to arise from transient abnormalities in the blood vessels of the brain. [ 1]
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...
Frequency. 0.6-2.5/100,000 cases per year. [ 2] In hematology, essential thrombocythemia ( ET) is a rare chronic blood cancer ( myeloproliferative neoplasm) characterised by the overproduction of platelets (thrombocytes) by megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. [ 3] It may, albeit rarely, develop into acute myeloid leukemia or myelofibrosis. [ 3]
The ICD-10 Clinical Modification ( ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [ 1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [ 2] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization. In 2015, ICD-10-CM replaced ICD-9-CM as the federally ...
AL amyloidosis. Amyloid light-chain ( AL) amyloidosis, also known as primary amyloidosis, is the most common form of systemic amyloidosis. [ 1] The disease is caused when a person's antibody -producing cells do not function properly and produce abnormal protein fibers made of components of antibodies called light chains.