ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the digestive...
Clinical findings in the digestive system
ME24 — Clinical manifestations of the digestive system
DB32.2 — Megacolon
DB32.20 — Toxic megacolon
ICD-11 DB32.20 — Toxic megacolon
Toxic megacolon is an acute form of colonic distension characterised by a very dilated colon, accompanied by abdominal distension (bloating), and sometimes fever, abdominal pain, or shock. « Toxic» means that this complication occurs with inflammation. Toxic megacolon is a rare, life-threatening widening of the large intestine that occurs within a few days, occurring as a complication of inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: