ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C8E — Viral meningitis not elsewhere classified
1E90.1 — Varicella meningitis
ICD-11 1E90.1 — Varicella meningitis
A disease of the meninges, caused by an infection with varicella zoster virus. This infection is characterised by fever, stiff neck, headache, vomiting, photophobia, and sometimes an altered mental status or body aches. Transmission is through hematogenous spread to the meninges after inhalation of infected respiratory secretions, or direct contact with fluid from vesicles. Confirmation is by identification of varicella zoster viral DNA or anti-varicella zoster IgG in cerebrospinal fluid.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: