Febrile neutropenia (also known as neutropenic fever or neutropenic sepsis) is one of a handful of oncologic emergencies. It’s in the same notorious group as TLS, hypercalcemia, and spinal cord compression. But unlike the other oncologic emergencies, neutropenic fever is relatively asymptomatic. In fact, fever is often the only symptom present. That doesn’t sound so bad, right?
The study on children with febrile illness with no bacterial focus found no difference in duration of other symptoms. In children with acute infection, antipyretics do not appear to prolong the duration of febrile illness, and may shorten the duration to fever resolution. Abstracted from: Purssell E, While AE.
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ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code D72 D72.
The fever code is added to describe the neutropenia. For this query, the fever would be coded to R50. 9 Fever, unspecified.
ICD-10 code R50. 81 for Fever presenting with conditions classified elsewhere is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .
ICD-10-CM Code for Fever, unspecified R50. 9.
Listen to pronunciation. (FEH-brile noo-troh-PEE-nee-uh) A condition marked by fever and a lower-than-normal number of neutrophils in the blood. A neutrophil is a type of white blood cell that helps fight infection.
Neutropenic fever is defined as a single oral temperature greater than or equal to 101 F, or a temperature greater than or equal to 100.4 F for at least an hour, with an absolute neutrophilic count (ANC) of less than 1500 cells/microliter.
9: Fever, unspecified.
Acute febrile illness was defined as a patient with fever of 38°C or higher at presentation to ED or history of fever that persisted for 2–7 days with no localizing source.
Fever presenting with conditions classified elsewhere The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM R50. 81 became effective on October 1, 2021. This is the American ICD-10-CM version of R50.
Article Sections. Fever of unknown origin (FUO) in adults is defined as a temperature higher than 38.3 C (100.9 F) that lasts for more than three weeks with no obvious source despite appropriate investigation.
288.60 - Leukocytosis, unspecified | ICD-10-CM.