ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Malaria
1F40 — Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
1F40.0 — Plasmodium falciparum malaria with cerebral complications

ICD-11 1F40.0 — Plasmodium falciparum malaria with cerebral complications

A disease of the cerebrum, caused by an infection with the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum. This disease commonly presents with retinal whitening, splenomegaly, anaemia, thrombocytopenia, hypoglycaemia, pulmonary dysfunction, renal dysfunction, or neurologic changes. This disease may also present with fever, chills, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, weakness, vomiting, or diarrhoea. Transmission is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Confirmation is by identification of Plasmodium falciparum in a blood sample.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.