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:	none assigned
Charlson/ALERT Scale:	none
APACHE Como Component:	none
APACHE Acute Component:	none
Start Date:
Stop Date:
Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements):	No results
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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.
- It includes liver failure due to viral infection, autoimmune, etc -- as long as the time course is chronic.
Also code the cause of the liver failure, if known.
Remember that liver failure is a distinct manifestation of advanced liver disease that can be caused by many different types of liver disease. Elevations (even big elevations) alone of transaminases is not liver failure. In liver failure, there must be 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.
Non Fulminant Hepatic failure - refers to liver failure that has been on a steady decline. End of the line due to a chronic underlying know liver disease

Liver failure codes:

Liver disease codes:

Encephalopathy codes:

Code the cause if known:

Liver disease codes:

Skin	Trauma	Renal/urinary	Infectious disease
ENT	Testing	Cardiovascular	Hereditary/congenital
Eye	Mechanism	Neoplastic	Heme/immunology
Misc	Reproductive	Gastrointestinal	Musculoskeletal/soft tissue
Psych	Respiratory	Poisoning
Neuro	Symptom/Sign	Endocrine disorder