Table 2.
Leading Diagnoses for Autologous and Implant-based Breast Reconstructions
| Top Five Primary Diagnoses for 90-day Readmissions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Code | All | Autologous | Implant | |||
| Count | Percentage | Count | Percentage | Count | Percentage | ||
| Infection following a procedure, initial encounter | T814XXA | 288 | 21.69 | 165 | 25.65 | 122 | 17.93 |
| Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts, initial encounter | T8579XA | 213 | 16.04 | 56 | 8.70 | 157 | 22.99 |
| Disruption of external operation (surgical) wound, not elsewhere classified, initial encounter | T8131XA | 31 | 2.03 | 15 | 2.40 | 16 | 2.29 |
| Other pulmonary embolism without acute corpulmonale | I2699 | 32 | 2.38 | 24 | 3.69 | 8 | 1.16 |
| Sepsis, unspecified organism | A419 | 25 | 1.92 | 16 | 2.48 | 9 | 1.39 |
The table contains the leading five readmission diagnoses and their associated ICD-10 codes for autologous and implant-based breast reconstructions.