ICD-11 classes
19 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
Birth injury
KA40 — Birth injury to central nervous system
KA40.1 — Cerebral oedema due to birth injury
ICD-11 KA40.1 — Cerebral oedema due to birth injury
Cerebral oedema is an excessive accumulation of water in the intracellular or extracellular spaces of the brain. There is a break down of the tight endothelial junctions which make up the blood brain barrier.Code also any intracranial haemorrhage.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Traumatic cerebral oedema #8162
- Traumatic cerebral oedema #8337
- Traumatic cerebral oedema #25617