ICD-11 classes
16 Diseases of the genitourinary system
Diseases of the urinary system
Renal tubulo-interstitial diseases
GB52 — Acute tubular necrosis

ICD-11 GB52 — Acute tubular necrosis

Any condition of the kidney, caused by hypotension, hypoperfusion, ischaemia, hypoxia, or use of nephrotoxic drugs. These conditions are characterised by death of tubular epithelial cells and acute kidney injury. Confirmation is by identification of «muddy brown casts» of epithelial cells in a urine sample.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.