ICD-11 classes
11 Diseases of the circulatory system
Diseases of the myocardium or cardiac chambers
BC42 — Myocarditis
BC42.1 — Infectious myocarditis
ICD-11 BC42.1 — Infectious myocarditis
Infectious myocarditis (infectious inflammatory cardiomyopathy) is inflammation of the heart muscle generally in the presence of a dilated cardiomyopathy that results from exposure to discrete infectious external antigens such as a virus, bacteria or parasite.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 3 items.
- Acute rheumatic myocarditis (1B41.2)
- Myoendocarditis (BB41)
- Acute or subacute infectious endocarditis (BB40)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.