A systemic disease effects more than one part of the body. A severe systemic disease is spread throughout the body and impacts the patient's life to a large degree, causing widespread pain and suffering.
What is mild systemic
I: healthy patient II: patient with mild systemic disease without functional limitations III: patient with severe systemic disease with definite functional limitations IV: patient with severe systemic disease that is life-threatening
Systemic illnesses, such as diabetes, may result in cataracts.
Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy parts of the self.
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No. There is a rare form of leukemia which is caused by systemic mastocytosis but most of us with the disease will not get it.
Goatpox is a disease caused by a poxvirus and is characterised by typical pox lesions on the hairless skin areas. Kids may develop a severe systemic form with a high mortality rate.
Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis)
The patient with distant metastases has systemic disease. Thus, the cancer originating in the colon begins locally and, given time, can become systemic.
The modifier that would be used to code a patient with a mild systemic disease is "CR" (catastrophic illness or injury).
Complete shedding of the nails, usually associated with systemic disease.