Exam 8: Diseases of the Blood and Blood-Forming Organs

Linda has been tired and complains of feeling weak for the last two to three months. Blood work shows that she has folic acid deficiency anemia. The code(s) for this case is (are) ____________________.

Chapter 4 of ICD-10-CM reports codes for nutritional anemias, hemolytic anemias, and other hemorrhagic conditions.

Medullary hypoplasia is reported with code _____.

Hemoglobin H disease is reported with code ____________________.

Purpura is the accumulation of blood under the skin that forms multiple pinpoint hemorrhages.

Aplastic anemia is the failure of bone marrow to produce blood components.

Peggy Sue has been diagnosed with anemia. After further work-up it has been determined that she has anemia due to hemolytic nonspherocytic, type 1. She returns to the office today to discuss the treatment of the anemia. The diagnostic code to report is ____________________.

Atrophy of spleen is reported with code _____.

The spleen is located in the _____ quadrant of the abdomen.

The liquid portion of the blood without its cellular elements is known as plasma.

Severe beta thalassemia is reported with code _____.

Benign hypergammaglobulinemic purpura is reported with code ____________________.

An abnormal decrease of granular leukocytes in the blood is known as _____.

Allergic vasculitis is reported with code _____.

Sickle-cell thalassemia with acute chest syndrome is reported with code _____.

Plasma thromboplastin component deficiency is reported with code ____________________.

Anemia is marked by an increase in the white blood cells.

A platelet plug is formed by the body to stop bleeding when the skin is cut.

Transient acquired pure red cell aplasia is reported with code _____.

Tom Smith, a 2-year-old patient, has been experiencing a fever of undetermined origin for the past three weeks, and two weeks ago blood work was ordered. Today he is afebrile. He returns to the office today with his mother to discuss the laboratory findings. The findings show infantile genetic agranulocytosis. The code(s) for this case are ____________________.