Pleurisy (infectious or noninfectious)
ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | Pleurisy (infectious or noninfectious) |
ICD10 code: | R09.1 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Pleural Effusion, Non Cardiac Chest Pain incl. NYD |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
APACHE Como Component: | none |
APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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{{ICD10 category|Infectious diseaseAdditional Info
- Pleurisy is denotes inflammation of the pleura. It is NOT just a symptom.
- It's cardinal symptom is pleuritic chest pain (pain with coughing or with breathing, especially deep breathing, Pain, pleuritic chest pain).
- It may be present with or without pleural effusion.
- It can be due to either infectious or noninfectious causes -- thus this code includes viral pleurisy (which is almost always a diagnosis of exclusion).
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
- Also code the cause, if known and is other than viral pleurisy.
- In the extraordinarly rare case where it's infectious and the organism is known, also code the organism.
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