Cerebral infarction/stroke due to embolism: Difference between revisions
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== Additional Info == | == Additional Info == | ||
*This code includes an ischemic cardioembolic event. | *This code includes an ischemic cardioembolic event. | ||
**If the ischemic stroke was not embolic, then instead use code '''[[Cerebral infarction/stroke, NOS]]'''. | |||
*If this code occurs, and then the initially ischemic stroke spontaneously "transforms" and bleeds, then COMBINE this code with the appropriate code for the hemorrhage (see below). | *If this code occurs, and then the initially ischemic stroke spontaneously "transforms" and bleeds, then COMBINE this code with the appropriate code for the hemorrhage (see below). | ||
**However, if hemorrhage after an ischemic stroke was NOT spontaneous, but followed anticoagulation, then the hemorrhage should be coded as '''[[Hemorrhage, due to anticoagulant drugs]]''' since it's not a spontaneous hemorrhagic transformation, and thus is a complication of treatment, not a complication of the stroke per se. | **However, if hemorrhage after an ischemic stroke was NOT spontaneous, but followed anticoagulation, then the hemorrhage should be coded as '''[[Hemorrhage, due to anticoagulant drugs]]''' since it's not a spontaneous hemorrhagic transformation, and thus is a complication of treatment, not a complication of the stroke per se. | ||