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. 2018 Nov 26;13:211. doi: 10.1186/s13023-018-0955-7

Table 1.

Coverage of congenital myasthenic syndromes by the major medical coding systems

Coding system Terminology browser used Coding for congenital myasthenic syndromes class/category Coding for individual CMS types
International Classification of Disease (ICD) Revision 11 https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en 8C61: Congenital myasthenic syndromes No coding but textual description of four categories:
Congenital myasthenic syndrome with presynaptic defect, Synaptic basal lamina-associated CMS, Congenital myasthenia with postsynaptic defect, CMS with glycosylation deficiency, Unidentified CMS.
International Classification of Disease (ICD) Revision 10 http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en G70.2: Congenital and developmental myasthenia Not present
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search C16.320.590: Myasthenic Syndromes, Congenital Not present
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) http://browser.ihtsdotools.org/ 230672006: Congenital myasthenia (disorder) Not present
Orphanet nomenclature of rare diseases https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease.php?lng=EN ORPHA:590: Congenital myasthenic syndrome Most granular level is absent. Subclasses are defined:
Postsynaptic congenital myasthenic syndromes
Presynaptic congenital myasthenic syndromes
Synaptic congenital myasthenic syndromes
Congenital myasthenic syndromes with glycosylation defect
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) http://omim.org/ N/A Coding of 28 out of 39 entities with “phenotype MIM number” (for detail see Table 2)
No hierarchies/ontological features