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cataplexy

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Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of muscle weakness accompanied by full conscious awareness, typically triggered by emotions such as laughing, crying, or terror. Cataplexy is the first symptom to appear in about 10% of cases of narcolepsy, caused by an autoimmune destruction of hypothalamic neurons that produce the neuropeptide hypocretin (also called orexin), which regulates arousal and has a role in stabilization of the transition between wake and sleep states...
Related Codes (5)
Code
Description
Billable
Details
G47.4Narcolepsy and cataplexy
G47.411Narcolepsy with cataplexy
G47.419Narcolepsy without cataplexy
G47.421Narcolepsy in conditions classified elsewhere with cataplexy
G47.429Narcolepsy in conditions classified elsewhere without cataplexy

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