Degenerative nervous system disorder, NOS: Difference between revisions

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 == Additional Info ==
-'''Includes''': Friedreich's Ataxia
+'''Includes''':
-*Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), popularly known as Kennedy's disease, is a progressive debilitating neurodegenerative disorder resulting in muscle cramps and progressive weakness due to degeneration of motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord.
+*Friedreich's Ataxia
+*Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), aka '''Kennedy's disease''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_and_bulbar_muscular_atrophy]
+*Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
+*Leigh Syndrome [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_syndrome]
+* '''Corticobasal syndrome (CBS)''' a rare progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes parts of a person's brain to change over time. As a result of these changes, people living with CBS can experience increased difficulty with their coordination, movement, thinking and speech.
+* motor neuron disease if not due to [[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease)]]
+* hepatocerebral degeneration- a rare, mostly irreversible neurological syndrome that occurs in patients with chronic liver disease,  combine with the appropriate liver disease code.
+* Lower Motor Neuron disease
 == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==