In medical terms, what is status post?

It basically means u201cafter,u201d or that the patient has previously been diagnosed with something in the past. A person who is u201cstatus post compound fracture right lower extremityu201d has had a broken right leg where the bone poked through the skin. A person who is diagnosed with u201cneuropathy status post diabetes mellitusu201d has nerve pain since developing diabetes. u201cStatus post carcinoma of the prostate, status post chemotherapy and I-131 seed placement,u201d means that he had prostate cancer that was treated with medical and radioactive implant interventions. On patient charts you will often see the admitting/discharge diagnoses listed with u201cstatus postu201d written as u201cS/P,u201d which is technically incorrect procedure because abbreviations are not supposed to be used in diagnoses, but that is what it means.
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