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Wiki Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Thread starter sullivak
Start date Sep 10, 2015

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sullivak

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Sep 10, 2015

Hi,
I've noticed that in the GEMS "persistent atrial fibrillation" (I48.1) maps to "atrial flutter" (427.32) in ICD-9. I generally use 427.31 to describe a fib in general in ICD-9. Does this mapping make sense? Is persistent a fib the same as atrial flutter?
Kim

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