Muscle disorder/myopathy (primary or secondary), NOS
ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | Muscle disorder/myopathy (primary or secondary), NOS |
ICD10 code: | G72.9 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Neuromuscular Disease NYD, Respiratory failure 2nd to Neuromuscular Disease |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
APACHE Como Component: | none |
APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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Additional Info
Includes: Familial Periodic Paralysis
JALT is this where we could code stiff man syndrome? Lisa Kaita 09:41, 2022 July 22 (CDT) |
Guidelines for Acquired neuromuscular weakness
- Many acutely ill (especially critically ill) patients develop/acquire weakness while in hospital
- But, there are a variety of different causes of such weakness, including related to problems with nerves (neuropathies) and muscles (myopathies). While there are some ways to distinguish among these (e.g. use of EMG/NCV testing) this is almost never done because other than avoidance, there are no real treatments for any of these, i.e. they're all treated with rehabilitation.
- Here are the specific diagnostic codes we have to cover these various causes:
- Acquired neuropathies:
- Acquired myopathies:
- Muscle, wasting/atrophy NOS -- this INCLUDES weakness/wasting/atrophy due to deconditioning
- Myopathy, drug-induced
- Muscle disorder/myopathy (primary or secondary), NOS
- Muscle, disorder NOS
- When it's not even clear whether the problem is due to muscle or nerves
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Guillain-Barre syndrome (Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP))
- Eaton-Lambert syndrome (Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome)
- Mitochondrial myopathy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myopathy, alcoholic
- Myopathy, drug-induced
- Paraneoplastic neuropathy or myopathy
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