ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of the stomach or the duodenum
Diseases of stomach
DA60 — Gastric ulcer
DA60.3 — Stress ulcer of stomach

ICD-11 DA60.3 — Stress ulcer of stomach

Stress ulcers of stomach are acute mucosal lesions occurring in critically ill patients that may result in acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. They are usually superficial erosions but can develop into ulcers. Stress ulcer of stomach may develop anywhere within the stomach but are more likely to occur in fundic mucosa, which lines the body and fundus of the stomach.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Gastric ulcer #13791