Splenomegaly - Diagnostic validity, work-up, and underlying causes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our aim was to assess the validity of the ICD-10 code for splenomegaly in the Danish National Registry of Patients (DNRP), as well as to investigate which underlying diseases explained the observed splenomegaly.

Background

Splenomegaly is a common finding in patients referred to an internal medical department and can be caused by a large spectrum of diseases, including haematological diseases and liver cirrhosis. However, some patients remain without a causal diagnosis, despite extensive medical work-up.

Patients and methods

We identified 129 patients through the DNRP, that had been given the ICD-10 splenomegaly diagnosis code in 1994-2013 at Odense University Hospital, Denmark, excluding patients with prior splenomegaly, malignant haematological neoplasia or

SUBMITTER: Curovic Rotbain E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5685614 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature