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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2012 Issue 2; Ask the Editor
Kidney Transplant with ABO Incompatible Organ
This patient with multifactorial risk factors for chronic kidney disease including stone disease and diabetes mellitus presents for a kidney transplant. Documentation states that the patient was purposely transplanted with an ABO incompatible organ and was treated with cycles of plasmapheresis and intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) prior to the transplant. Should the ABO incompatibility be coded? Is code 996.81, Complication of transplanted organ, kidney, the correct code?
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