AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2007 Issue 3; Clarifications
Aborted Stroke
The Central Office on ICD-9-CM has received several questions concerning the validity of advice about “aborted stroke†published in Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2007, pages 23-34. Although this advice appears to conflict with information published in Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2001, pages 7-8, regarding “aborted myocardial infarction (MI),†these cases are clinically different. In terms of the aborted MI, the patient presented with severe chest pain resembling an acute MI. After tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) was administered, the MI was averted with no evidence of injury to the...
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