ICD-11 classes
11 Diseases of the circulatory system
BC20 — Chronic rheumatic heart diseases, not elsewhere classified
BB71.0 — Rheumatic aortic valve insufficiency
ICD-11 BB71.0 — Rheumatic aortic valve insufficiency
Aortic insufficiency is the leaking of the aortic valve of the heart that causes blood to flow in the reverse direction during ventricular diastole, from the aorta into the left ventricle. Rheumatic fever cause the cuspis retraction.
It includes 2 items.
- rheumatic aortic incompetence
- rheumatic aortic regurgitation
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Aortic valve insufficiency #11109