ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Helminthiases
Diseases due to trematodes
1F86 — Schistosomiasis
1F86.1 — Schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma mansoni

ICD-11 1F86.1 — Schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma mansoni

A disease caused by an infection with the parasitic worm Schistosoma mansoni. This disease commonly presents with Katayama fever, hepatic perisinusoidal egg granulomas, Symmers’ pipe stem periportal fibrosis, or portal hypertension. This disease may also present with embolic egg granulomas in the brain or spinal cord. Transmission is by direct contact with freshwater that has been contaminated with Schistosoma mansoni eggs or snails that carry Schistosoma mansoni. Confirmation is by identification of the Schistosoma mansoni eggs in a faecal sample.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.