Other Diseases and Conditions

Who May Benefit from The Vest® Airway Clearance System at Home?

• Evidence of suggestion of retained secretions 
• Evidence of difficulty with secretion clearance
• Presence of atelectasis caused by mucus plugging

Conditions which might cause these difficulties are:

Chronic Pulmonary 

• Cystic Fibrosis with Pulmonary Manifestations (E84.0)
• Cystic Fibrosis, Unspecified (E84.9)
• Bronchiectasis with Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (J47.0)
• Bronchiectasis with (Acute) Exacerbation (J47.1)
• Bronchiectasis, Uncomplicated (J47.9)
• Tuberculosis of the Lung (A15.0)

Neuromuscular Patients

• Sequelae of Poliomyelitis (B91)
• Post-polio Syndrome (G14)
• Biotinidase Deficiency (D81.810)
• Defects in the Complement System (D84.1)
• Disorders of the Diaphragm (J98.6)

Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Related Syndromes

• Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type 1, Werdnig-Hoffman (G12.0)
• Other Inherited Spinal Muscular Atrophy (G12.1)
• Motor Neuron Disease, Unspecified (G12.20)
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (G12.21)
• Progressive Bulbar Palsy (G12.22)
• Other Motor Neuron Disease (G12.29)
• Other Spinal Muscular Atrophies and Related Syndromes (G12.8)
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Unspecified (G12.9)
• Multiple Sclerosis (G35)

Quadriplegia

• Quadriplegia, Unspecified (G82.50)
• Quadriplegia, C1-C4 Complete (G82.51)
• Quadriplegia, C1-C4 Incomplete (G82.52)
• Quadriplegia, C5-C7 Complete (G82.53)
• Quadriplegia, C5-C7 Incomplete (G82.54)

Primary Disorders of Muscles

• Muscular Dystrophy, Unspecified (G71.00)
• Duchenne or Becker Muscular Dystrophy (G71.01)
• Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (G71.02)
• Other Specified Muscular Dystrophies (G71.09)
• Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy (G71.11)
• Myotonia Congenita (G71.12)
• Myotonic Chondrodystrophy (G71.13)
• Drug Induced Myotonia (G71.14)
• Other Specified Myotonic Disorders (G71.19)
• Congenital Myopathies (G71.2)
• Mitochondrial Myopathy, Not Elsewhere Classified (G71.3)
• Other Primary Disorders of Muscles (G71.8)

Other Myopathies

• Drug-induced Myopathy (G72.0)
• Alcoholic Myopathy (G72.1)
• Myopathy Due to Other Toxic Agents (G72.2)
• Other Specified Myopathies (G72.89)
• Myopathy in Diseases Classified Elsewhere (G73.7)
• Juvenile Dermatopolymyositis with Myopathy (M33.02)
• Other Dermatopolymyositis with Myopathy (M33.12)
• Polymyositis with Myopathy (M33.22)
• Dermatopolymyositis, Unspecified with Myopathy (M33.92)
• Systemic Sclerosis with Myopathy (M34.82)
• Sicca Syndrome with Myopathy (M35.03)

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