AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2025 Issue 1; Ask the Editor

Extension of Hysterotomy Incision with Uterine Laceration During Cesarean Section

A patient with a history of prior cesarean section was admitted for a trial of labor at 38-weeks of gestation. Due to failure to progress and fetal intolerance of labor, the patient had a repeat cesarean delivery. The infant was delivered via low transverse hysterotomy. During surgery, the surgeon noted a thin uterine segment and bleeding from a hysterotomy extension with uterine laceration presumably from the left uterine artery. Sutures were placed to repair the uterine laceration and hysterotomy extension. What is the correct diagnosis code assignment for the extension of the hysterotomy incision with uterine laceration? ...

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