Cachectic: Having cachexia, physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass due to disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, severe heart failure and some other major chronic progressive diseases may appear cachectic.
ICD-10 code R64 for Cachexia is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .
While ICD-9-CM classified cachexia due to malnutrition as only 799.4, many coders may add an additional code for the documented malnutrition.
Cachexia is also called wasting syndrome or anorexia cachexia syndrome. Cachexia is more than only loss of appetite. It is a complex problem. It involves changes in the way your body uses proteins, carbohydrates, and fat. You may also burn up calories faster than usual.
Listen to pronunciation. (kuh-KEK-see-uh) Loss of body weight and muscle mass, and weakness that may occur in patients with cancer, AIDS, or other chronic diseases.
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I26 I26.
Coding professionals would use ICD-10-CM code E43 to report severe malnutrition, also known as starvation edema. They would use ICD-10-CM code E42 to report severe protein-calorie malnutrition with signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus.
Cachexia and, more specifically, cancer cachexia is a type of disease-related malnutrition associated with chronic inflammation, which should not be perceived as end-stage malnutrition [8].
Cachexia is a condition that causes extreme weight loss and muscle wasting. It is a symptom of many chronic conditions such as cancer, chronic renal failure, HIV, and multiple sclerosis. Cachexia predominantly affects people in the late stages of serious diseases like cancer, HIV or AIDS, and congestive heart failure.
Sarcopenia, defined as the loss of muscle mass and function associated with aging, and cachexia, defined as weight loss due to an underlying illness, are muscle wasting disorders of particular relevance in the aging population, but they go largely unrecognized.
In defining these terms further, anorexia describes loss of appetite and/or an aversion to food. The term “cachexia” refers to a loss of body mass, including lean body mass and fat, in the setting of a disease state, in this case cancer.
If you have atrophied muscles, you'll see a decrease in your muscle mass and strength. With muscle atrophy, your muscles look smaller than normal. Muscle atrophy can occur due to malnutrition, age, genetics, a lack of physical activity or certain medical conditions.