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What is mild systemic
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.
Systemic illnesses, such as diabetes, may result in cataracts.
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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.
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).
Neuralgia is caused by irritation or nerve damage from systemic disease, inflammation, infection, and compression or physical irritation of a nerve. The location of the pain depends on the underlying condition.
Complete shedding of the nails, usually associated with systemic disease.
Both systemic lupus and Crohn's disease are autoimmune. Autoimmune diseases frequently occur together. There are some one hundred autoimmune diseases. Learn more at www.aarda.org.