ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Spinal cord disorders excluding trauma
8B41 — Myelitis
1D02 — Infectious myelitis not elsewhere classified
1D02.1 — Viral myelitis
1C81 — Acute poliomyelitis
ICD-11 1C81 — Acute poliomyelitis
A disease of the nervous system, caused by human poliovirus. This disease commonly presents with a fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, or stiffness of the neck and back. This disease may present with an acute onset of flaccid paralysis. Transmission is commonly by the faecal-oral route or direct contact. Confirmation is by identification of poliovirus in a faecal sample or by a lumbar puncture.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: