ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of liver
DB99 — Certain specified diseases of liver
DB99.4 — Hepatopulmonary syndrome

ICD-11 DB99.4 — Hepatopulmonary syndrome

This is a syndrome of shortness of breath and hypoxemia (low oxygen levels in the blood of the arteries) caused by vasodilation (broadening of the blood vessels) in the lungs of patients with liver disease.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.