ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Nonintestinal protozoal diseases
1F53 — Chagas disease
1F53.2 — Chronic Chagas disease with heart involvement
ICD-11 1F53.2 — Chronic Chagas disease with heart involvement
A disease caused by a chronic infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. This disease commonly presents with severe malaise or cardiac involvement (such as cardiomyopathy, cardiac failure, thromboembolism, bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias, apical aneurysms, or cardiac arrest). Transmission is by direct contact with faeces from an infected triatomine bug, vertical transmission, iatrogenic transmission, or ingestion of contaminated food or water. Confirmation is by identification of Trypanosoma cruzi in a blood sample.
It includes 1 item.
- Chagas' disease with myocarditis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.