ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Spinal cord disorders excluding trauma
8B43 — Non-compressive vascular myelopathies
8B43.0 — Acute arterial infarction of the spinal cord

ICD-11 8B43.0 — Acute arterial infarction of the spinal cord

Acute arterial infarction of the spinal cord is due to occlusion of the anterior or posterior spinal arteries or their branches. Classical anterior spinal artery occlusion in the watershed zone in the lower cervical cord causes a specific cord syndrome with sparing of the posterior segment of the cord. Associated aortic atherosclerotic disease as well as dissection should not be overlooked.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.