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Both Adolf Jarisch, [9] an Austrian dermatologist, and Karl Herxheimer, [10] a German dermatologist, are credited with the discovery of the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction. Both Jarisch and Herxheimer observed reactions in patients with syphilis treated with mercury. The reaction was first seen following treatment in early and later stages of ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
The ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [ 2 ] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization .
It is typically associated with infection by either herpes simplex virus or Mycoplasma pneumoniae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a type IV hypersensitivity reaction in which T-lymphocytes target skin keratinocytes due to the presence of specific proteins that resemble antigens of HSV, Mycoplasma , or other pathogens and foreign substances. [ 3 ]
The genus Mycoplasma uses vertebrate and arthropod hosts. [9] Dietary nitrogen availability has been shown to alter codon bias and genome evolution in Mycoplasma and the plant parasites Phytoplasma. [10] Mycoplasma species are among the smallest free-living organisms (about 0.2 - 0.3 μm in diameter).
Adoption of ICD-10-CM was slow in the United States. Since 1979, the US had required ICD-9-CM codes [11] for Medicare and Medicaid claims, and most of the rest of the American medical industry followed suit. On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 (without clinical extensions) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity ...
13 (E870–E876) Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care 14 (E878–E879) Surgical and medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of patient or later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of procedure
Europe and other parts of the world use the ICD-10. The root codes for ICD-10 and ICD-10-CM are the same, making it helpful for locating codes for general body systems and disease processes. [2] [3] In ICD-11 the search and coding of any disease, including rare ones is done via the ICD-11 website. [4]