ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of liver
DB94 — Alcoholic liver disease
ICD-11 DB94 — Alcoholic liver disease
Alcoholic liver disease is damage to the liver and its function due to excessive intake of alcohol over a prolonged period of time. The diagnosis is made by a history of excessive intake of alcohol and exclusion of other causes of liver disease. However, it is important to note that excessive alcohol intake interacts with other causes of chronic liver disease to worsen the pathological severity and clinical outcome; important (relatively common) examples are with chronic hepatitis C, obesity and diabetes-related fatty liver, and haemochromatosis.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
Diagnosis with code DB94 contains 6 clarifying diagnoses:
- DB94.0 — Alcoholic fatty liver
- DB94.1 — Alcoholic hepatitis
It contains 3 clarifying diagnoses. - DB94.2 — Alcoholic liver fibrosis
- DB94.3 — Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver without hepatitis
- DB94.Y — Other specified alcoholic liver disease
- DB94.Z — Alcoholic liver disease, unspecified