78896-8
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 78896-8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | |||
| description | This term is used to report a summary finding of the number of coronary artery segments that are stenosed based on coronary angiogram. Information about the number of vessels and specific vessels involved helps guide patient management decisions (e.g., whether to treat with diet and exercise, medication alone, percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft), and the extent of disease is associated with risk of other conditions such as myocardial infarction. | ||
| status | ACTIVE | ||
Fully-Specified Name | |||
| component | Number of diseased coronary segments | ||
| property | Find = Finding | ||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||
| system | Coronary arteries | ||
| scale | Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody. | ||
| method | Angiogram | ||
Additional Names | |||
| short name | Ang; Angio; Angm; CARD.PROC; Cardio; Cardiology; Coronary aa; Finding; Findings; Heart; Heart Disease; No; Nominal; Num; Num dis coronary segments; Point in time; Random | ||
Basic Attributes | |||
| class | CARD.PROC | ||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||
| order vs. observation | Num dis coronar | ||
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History/Usage | |||
| first released | |||
| last updated | 2.54 | ||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||
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