ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of the stomach or the duodenum
Diseases of stomach
DA43 — Vascular disorders of the stomach
DA43.0 — Gastric varices
ICD-11 DA43.0 — Gastric varices
Abnormally dilated veins developed as portosystemic shunts in the lining of stomach (fundus and/or cardia) in patients with portal hypertension. Once gastric varices develop, they continue to grow, and bleeding from gastric varices can be fatal.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: