M36.52: Stage 2 chronic graft-versus-host disease of connective tissue
After you received donor stem cells in the past, the stem cells have, over a long period of time, damaged your connective tissue.
There is connective tissue all over the body. For example, there is connective tissue beneath the skin. Connective tissue also surrounds muscles and organs.
With this disorder, the donor immune cells attack the connective tissue in the body. The connective tissue may have been damaged as a result. As a result, you may have muscle pains, for example. Your muscles may feel stiff, or you may no longer be able to move your joints so well.
The symptoms are limiting you somewhat in your everyday life.
Additional indicator
On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.
- G: Confirmed diagnosis
- V: Tentative diagnosis
- Z: Condition after
- A: Excluded diagnosis
- L: Left
- R: Right
- B: Both sides
Further information
Source
Provided by the non-profit organization “Was hab’ ich?” gemeinnützige GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).