Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the gradual loss of kidney function. The function of your kidney is to filter waste and excess fluids from your blood and excrete into the urine. In patients with CKD, the waste and excess fluids can build up in the body.
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Pulmonary hypertension is a certain type of high blood pressure that increases the pressure in the pulmonary arteries/lungs and the right side of the heart. Some of the forms of pulmonary hypertension can be serious and over time even fatal.
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In the Alphabetic Index of ICD-10-CM, when indexing diabetes there is an entry under “with” for skin complications NEC. This has brought up many question over the past year regarding coding of cellulitis in patients that also have a diagnosis of diabetes. Are these two linked by the definition of “with” in ICD-10-CM?
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For FY2018 there is a new subcategory I50.8-. This subcategory was created and new codes were developed to identify and report the several different and specific types of heart failure. This will allow differentiating cases of pure right heart failure from left heart failure. The treatment of the two heart failures (left/right) are different as are the causes.
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A cerebral infarction is an ischemic stroke that results from a blockage or narrowing in the blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the brain. The causes for cerebral infarction include thrombus, embolism, or stenosis.
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