Liver failure w/wo hepatic encephalopathy, chronic NOS
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | Liver failure w/wo hepatic encephalopathy, chronic NOS |
| ICD10 code: | K72.1 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Non Fulminant Hepatic Failure |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | Moderate or severe liver disease |
| APACHE Como Component: | Liver |
| APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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| Stop Date: | |
| Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements): | No results |
| External ICD10 Documentation | |
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Additional Info
- This is the code to use for CHRONIC liver failure, with or without hepatic encephalopathy, that is NOT due to ethanol or another drug/toxin, and is ALSO NOT fulminant, acute or subacute.
- Remember that liver failure is a distinct manifestation of advanced liver disease that can be caused by many different types of liver disease. In liver failure, there is evidence of one or both of:
- synthetic dysfunction indicated by coagulopathy (with elevated PT, INR), very low albumin and other plasma proteins
- hepatic encephalopathy
- Liver cirrhosis is NOT the same thing as liver failure. They can occur alone, or together.
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- This is one of several different codes for liver failure:
| Liver failure codes: |
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
Code the cause if known, e.g. Hep B, Hep C, other viral hepatitis, immune-mediated liver diseases, or other causes of liver disease
- Hepatitis B, acute
- Hepatitis C, acute
- Viral hepatitis, acute, NOS
- Hepatitis B, chronic
- Hepatitis C, chronic
- Viral hepatitis, chronic, NOS
- Hepatitis A, acute
- Hepatitis, autoimmune
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