ICD-11 classes
11 Diseases of the circulatory system
BC20 — Chronic rheumatic heart diseases, not elsewhere classified
1B41 — Acute rheumatic fever with heart involvement
1B41.0 — Acute rheumatic pericarditis
ICD-11 1B41.0 — Acute rheumatic pericarditis
A disease of the pericardium, caused by acute rheumatic fever. This disease is characterised by fever, dry cough, rapid heart rate, fatigue, or low blood pressure. Confirmation is by echocardiography, or thoracic radiography.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: