ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral hepatitis
1E50 — Acute viral hepatitis
1E50.0 — Acute hepatitis A
ICD-11 1E50.0 — Acute hepatitis A
Acute liver injury and inflammation caused by recent and short-term (less than 6 months) infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV). Transmission is by the faecal-oral route. Diagnosis is confirmed by presence of IgM-anti-HAV in serum. Clinical features, if they occur, are characterised by anorexia, nausea and fever, with jaundice in severer cases.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 2 items.
- Infectious liver disease (DB90)
- Acute or subacute hepatic failure (DB91)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Acute viral hepatitis #14445