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Hypertensive crisis; Other names: Malignant hypertension, accelerated hypertension: A systolic hypertensive crisis as measured on a home automated arm blood pressure monitor, showing an extremely elevated systolic blood pressure of 227, a mildly elevated diastolic blood pressure of 93 and a very fast tachycardic heart rate of 162 beats per minute.
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]
Post-exertional malaise; Other names: Post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE) Postexertional malaise (PEM) Post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE) Chart of physical, cognitive, and emotional activities that may trigger PEM: Symptoms: Worsening of symptoms after ordinary activity: Causes: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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 ...
780.54 Hypersomnia, unspecified; 780.55 Disruptions of 24-hour sleep-wake cycle, unspecified; 780.56 Dysfunctions associated with sleep stages or arousal from sleep; 780.57 Unspecified sleep apnea; 780.58 Sleep related movement disorder, unspecified; 780.59 Other sleep disturbances; 780.6 Fever, nonperinatal; 780.7 Malaise and fatigue. 780.71 ...
This allows ICF to be coded as fatigue or unspecified chronic fatigue, and help distinguish it from other forms of fatigue including cancer-related fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue due to depression, fatigue due to old age, weakness/asthenia, and in the ICD-10, also from fatigue lasting under 6 months.
The ICD-11 includes bodily distress disorder, which bears similarities to somatic symptom disorder. While both conditions involve somatic symptoms, bodily distress disorder appears to be more strongly associated with the experience of physical symptoms, whereas somatic symptom disorder is more closely linked to psychological distress. [ 37 ]
In addition, hypertension precedes heart failure in 90% of cases, [7] and the majority of heart failure in the elderly may be attributable to hypertension. [17] Hypertensive heart disease was estimated to be responsible for 1.0 million deaths worldwide in 2004 (or approximately 1.7% of all deaths globally), and was ranked 13th in the leading ...