ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain staphylococcal or streptococcal diseases
Acute rheumatic fever
1B41 — Acute rheumatic fever with heart involvement
1B41.0 — Acute rheumatic pericarditis
ICD-11 1B41.0 — Acute rheumatic pericarditis
A disease of the pericardium, caused by acute rheumatic fever. This disease is characterised by fever, dry cough, rapid heart rate, fatigue, or low blood pressure. Confirmation is by echocardiography, or thoracic radiography.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Pericarditis #11047
- Acute rheumatic fever with heart involvement #11187