HIV Guidelines
In Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 1994, page 30, the example under section 10.3, Previously diagnosed HIV-related illness, lists code 421.1, Endocarditis, subacute, as the principal diagnosis. The principal diagnosis code should read 421.9, Acute endocarditis, unspecified, not 421.1.
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