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A patient, who was admitted with hypoxia and pneumonia, had a diagnostic bronchoscopy, in which a distal mucous plug was suctioned from the lung. What is the correct ICD-10-CM code assignment for m...
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The patient presented with malposition of a right subclavian central venous catheter (CVC) in the right brachiocephalic vein. The catheter was removed and replaced with a right internal jugular CVC...
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A patient, who is status post left total knee arthroplasty surgery, and recent wisdom tooth extraction, is diagnosed with hematogenous left knee prosthetic joint infection. He underwent revision of...
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A patient with melena and hematemesis was diagnosed with acute on chronic blood loss anemia due to a bleeding duodenal ulcer. ICD-10-CM classifies acute blood loss anemia to code D62, Acute posthem...
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A patient presents to the emergency department in severe respiratory distress due to possible aspiration. The patient was also noted to be septic on arrival due to pneumonia and Citrobacter urinary...
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The patient was diagnosed with acute ischemia of the ascending colon due to mesenteric vein thrombosis, which was attributed to Antithrombin III deficiency. The Index to Diseases references code I8...
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A patient with a history of bilateral mastectomy followed by tissue expander presented with acute swelling of the left breast. She was diagnosed with acute postoperative hematoma which was determin...
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A 63-year-old patient presented to the office for her annual eye examination. She is asymptomatic but ophthalmoscopy showed newly found signs of early stage dry macular degeneration with drusen in ...
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A patient with previously diagnosed hearing loss is seen for her annual audiological evaluation. She has history of left tympanic membrane perforation due to middle ear infection that resulted in m...
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