AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2011 Issue 1; Ask the Editor

Graft Versus Host Disease Following Stem Cell Transplant

The patient is a 58-year-old male who underwent unrelated donor hematopoietic peripheral blood stem cell transplant approximately 4 months ago for primary myelofibrosis with essential thrombocythemia. He has had a complicated post transplant course and was admitted to our facility with acute graft versus host disease (GVHD). The acute GVHD involved the stomach, intestine and liver and had been refractory to multiple treatments. Is the complication involving transplanted peripheral blood stem cells classified as a complication of transplanted bone marrow (996.85) or other transplanted organ (996.89)? ...

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