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**Don't confuse it with '''[[Stroke, NOS]]''' which is "NOS" in that it refers to a stroke for which is not specified as hemorrhage or infarction. | **Don't confuse it with '''[[Stroke, NOS]]''' which is "NOS" in that it refers to a stroke for which is not specified as hemorrhage or infarction. | ||
*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 | **However, if hemorrhage after an ischemic stroke was NOT spontaneous, but followed anticoagulation, then the hemorrhage should be coded as '''[[Hemorrhage, due to anticoagulant or thrombolytic drug]]''' since it's not a spontaneous hemorrhagic transformation, and thus is a complication of treatment, not a complication of the stroke per se. | ||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||