ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Nutritional disorders
Undernutrition
5B5K — Mineral deficiencies
5B5K.1 — Calcium deficiency
KB61.2 — Neonatal hypocalcaemia
ICD-11 KB61.2 — Neonatal hypocalcaemia
Hypocalcaemia is a common metabolic problem in newborns. In the neonate, hypocalcaemia is defined by birth weight (BW) categories. In infants with BW greater than 1500 g, hypocalcaemia is defined as a total serum Calcium (Ca) concentration less than 8 mg/dL (2 mmol/L) or an ionized fraction of less than 4.4 mg/dL (1.1 mmol/L). In very low birth weight premature infants (BW
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 1 item.
- Transitory neonatal hypoparathyroidism (KB64)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: