ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain staphylococcal or streptococcal diseases
BC42.3 — Rheumatic myocarditis
ICD-11 BC42.3 — Rheumatic myocarditis
Rheumatic myocarditis is cardiac inflammation and scarring triggered by an autoimmune reaction to group A streptococci infection resulting acutely in pancarditis involving inflammation of the myocardium, endocardium, and epicardium and chronically by valve fibrosis.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Myocarditis #11229