Diagnosis Postmortem

The diagnosis of post-infarction cardiosclerosis (PICC) is a clinical diagnosis that is established for patients with myocarditis caused by ischemic damage to the myocardium, resulting in full or partial compensation after a heart attack. The term PICS represents an ICD-10 diagnosis category as T12.5 in the Russian Federation (code J91.8 according to the ICD 11 classification.