AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2003 Fourth Quarter; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

Rhabdomyolysis

Effective October 1, 2003, new codes have been created to separately identify rhabdomyolysis. Prior to this change, rhabdomyolysis was coded to 728.89, Other disorders of muscle, ligament and fascia, Other. Due to the severity of this condition, the Coding Clinic Editorial Advisory Board requested that a unique code be created for rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis may result from a large variety of diseases, trauma, or toxic insults to skeletal muscle. It may result in the potentially life-threatening complication of myoglobinuric acute renal failure. Associated problems can also occur including cardiac arrest, hyperkalemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation and compartment syndrome. Rhabdomyolysis results...

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