Cirrhotic patients
These account for approximately 10 percent of all cases of upper gastrointestinal tract bleeeding but the incidence varies widely being significantly higher in the hospitals with the a large indigent population. Bleeding varices constitute 95 percent of the cases of massive hematemesis in the child and they are usually associated with extrahepatic obstruction of the portal vein. In cirrhotic patients varices are the cause of bleeding in 53 percent of the cases while gastritis is implicated in 22 percent and duodenal and gastric ulcers in 20 perecnt.ICD 10 Coding.will help you to do collections and also the pending amounts from the patients.
