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**If as may be the case, there is a viral encephalopathy due to this bug, then you'd code it as [[Encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, myelitis, encephalomyelitis, viral]] with the bug being the same. | **If as may be the case, there is a viral encephalopathy due to this bug, then you'd code it as [[Encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, myelitis, encephalomyelitis, viral]] with the bug being the same. | ||
**Code a person with "COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome" by linking [[COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2)]] to [[Disorder of the immune system, NOS]]. IF we see many more of these in the future, we will consider adopting the specific code for it U07.3. | **Code a person with "COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome" by linking [[COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2)]] to [[Disorder of the immune system, NOS]]. IF we see many more of these in the future, we will consider adopting the specific code for it U07.3. | ||
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* Coding as [[Disorder of the immune system, NOS]] will not work because a pathogen can only be coded with an infectious disease, and that is not. We could set it as infectious disease, but that defeats the purpose of the categorization and the cross check. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 13:51, 2021 January 12 (CST) | |||
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**If you have an asymptomatic patient who has tested positive, you can link this with [[Carrier of infectious disease, unspecified]]. | **If you have an asymptomatic patient who has tested positive, you can link this with [[Carrier of infectious disease, unspecified]]. | ||
**If you have a covid positive patient with GI symptoms only, you can combine with [[Gastrointestinal infection (gastroenteritis, colitis), viral]] | **If you have a covid positive patient with GI symptoms only, you can combine with [[Gastrointestinal infection (gastroenteritis, colitis), viral]] | ||