ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral hepatitis
1E50 — Acute viral hepatitis
1E50.4 — Acute hepatitis E
ICD-11 1E50.4 — Acute hepatitis E
A disease of the liver, caused by an acute infection with hepatitis E virus. This disease is characterised by nausea. Transmission is commonly by the faecal-oral route. Confirmation is by detection of anti-hepatitis E virus IgM antibodies in an individual's serum.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Acute viral hepatitis #14445