O72.3
Postpartum coagulation defects
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 5 never code together
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Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 10
O72code
Includes
- hemorrhage after delivery of fetus or infant
O72.3code
Inclusion terms
- Postpartum afibrinogenemia
- Postpartum fibrinolysis
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Notes
- CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.Z3A
Index entries leading here 13
- Afibrinogenemia D68.8
- puerperal O72.3
- Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications)
- Blood
- Dyscrasia
- Circulating anticoagulants D68.318
- following childbirth O72.3
- Defect, defective Q89.9
- Deficiency, deficient
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- defibrination — see also Fibrinolysis
- postpartum O72.3
- defibrination — see also Fibrinolysis
- Defibrination (syndrome) D65
- postpartum O72.3
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- Fibrinolysis (hemorrhagic) (acquired) D65
- postpartum O72.3
- Hemolysis
- intravascular
- postpartum O72.3
- intravascular
- Thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenic D69.6
- puerperal, postpartum O72.3
Alongside this code 3 same parent — O72
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.