ICD-10 code B18. 2 for Chronic viral hepatitis C is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Certain infectious and parasitic diseases .
ICD-10-CM Code for Liver disease, unspecified K76. 9.
If you have the hepatitis C virus in your blood for anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, you have “acute” hep C. After 6 months, it's called “chronic.” Without diagnosis and treatment, chronic hep C can remain for many years and lead to serious symptoms like liver damage.
Rizza, M.D. End-stage hepatitis C means the liver has been severely damaged by the hepatitis C virus. The hepatitis C virus slowly damages the liver over many years, often progressing from inflammation to permanent, irreversible scarring (cirrhosis).
E71.529E71. 529 - X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, unspecified type. ICD-10-CM.
ICD-10 code K74. 60 for Unspecified cirrhosis of liver is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the digestive system .
For some people, hepatitis C is a short-term illness, but for more than half of people who become infected with the hepatitis C virus, it becomes a long-term, chronic infection. Chronic hepatitis C can result in serious, even life-threatening health problems like cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Chronic persistent hepatitis is characterized histologically by mainly portal. inflammatory infiltration, preserved lobular architecture, and slight to. absent fibrosis. Piecemeal hepatocellular necrosis is not conspicuous. Chronic active hepatitis (formerly called aggressive hepatitis) is marked by.
Hepatitis can be an acute (short-term) infection or a chronic (long-term) infection. Some types of hepatitis cause only acute infections. Other types can cause both acute and chronic infections.
A liver transplant is the only effective cure for advanced cirrhosis. Most people who receive a liver transplant for hepatitis C survive for at least five years after the transplant. But, HCV infection usually returns.
In general, hepatitis may or may not be reversible (curable), whereas cirrhosis refers to permanent scarring of the liver, often as the result of chronic hepatitis. While some forms of hepatitis may come on very rapidly, cirrhosis also tends to develop more gradually.
Cirrhosis is scarring (fibrosis) of the liver caused by long-term liver damage. The scar tissue prevents the liver working properly. Cirrhosis is sometimes called end-stage liver disease because it happens after other stages of damage from conditions that affect the liver, such as hepatitis.