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.
The myelodysplastic syndromes (also known as MDS or myelodysplasia) are hematological (i.e., blood-related) medical conditions with ineffective production (or  dysplasia ) of all blood cells. Patients with MDS can develop severe anemia and require blood transfusions.any people live normal lifespans with MDS. The myelodysplastic syndromes are all disorders of the hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow (only related to myeloid lineage).