ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the respiratory...
Symptoms or signs involving the respiratory system
MD31 — Pleurisy
ICD-11 MD31 — Pleurisy
Pleurisy or Pleuritis is the medical term for inflammation of the pleura. The most common cause of pleuritis is infection, but it can also be caused by lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and certain medicines. Pleurisy or pleuritis usually accumulates exudative pleural effusions.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 1 item.
- pleurisy with effusion (CB27)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: