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What are the modifiers for mild systemic disease?
P3
What is mild systemic disease?
What is mild systemic
What does severe systemic disease mean?
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 systemic disease could result in cataracts?
Systemic illnesses, such as diabetes, may result in cataracts.
Is systemic lupus erythematosus an autoimmune disease?
Yes
Is systemic mastocytosis blood cancer?
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.
What disease causes thickening of skin?
Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis)
How does colon cancer become systemic?
The patient with distant metastases has systemic disease. Thus, the cancer originating in the colon begins locally and, given time, can become systemic.
Which modifier would be used to code a patient with a mild systemic disease?
The modifier that would be used to code a patient with a mild systemic disease is "CR" (catastrophic illness or injury).
What are the causes of neuralgia?
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.
What is onychomadesis?
Complete shedding of the nails, usually associated with systemic disease.
Is Systemic Lupus related to Crohn's 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.
