Assignment of the pressure ulcer stage code should be. guided by clinical documentation. of the stage or. documentation of the terms found in the. Alphabetic. Index. For clinical terms describing the stage that are not. found in the Alphabetic Index, and there is no.
The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a classification system for MDS to standardize the definitions of the different subtypes. The 7 subtypes of MDS in this system include: Refractory anemia (RA). The primary sign of RA is anemia. White blood cell counts and platelet counts are healthy.
Very young blood cells or blasts are found in the blood. Myelodysplastic syndrome, unclassified (MDS). This is a very rare syndrome, with decreased numbers of 1 of the 3 types of older blood cells and the white cells or the platelets look atypical with the microscope. Movement to AML leukemia is less common in MDS with isolated del (5q) than in any other forms of MDS.