ICD-10

From parent levels

ChapterICertain infectious and parasitic diseasesOpen

Coding note

Use additional code (U82, U83, U84), if desired, to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Inclusions

  • diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible

Exclusions

  • carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
  • certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
  • infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium [except obstetrical tetanus] (O98.-)
  • infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period [except tetanus neonatorum, whooping cough, congenital syphilis, perinatal gonococcal infection and perinatal human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease] (P35-P39)
  • influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)
BlockA50-A64Infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmissionOpen

Exclusions

  • human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20-B24)
  • nonspecific and nongonococcal urethritis (N34.1)
  • Reiter disease (M02.3)
CategoryA52Late syphilisOpen

A52.1

CategoryBlock A50-A64Chapter I

Symptomatic neurosyphilis

Inclusions

  • Late syphilitic: acoustic neuritis† (H94.0*)
  • Late syphilitic: encephalitis† (G05.0*)
  • Late syphilitic: meningitis† (G01*)
  • Late syphilitic: optic atrophy† (H48.0*)
  • Late syphilitic: polyneuropathy† (G63.0*)
  • Late syphilitic: retrobulbar neuritis† (H48.1*)
  • Syphilitic parkinsonism† (G22*)
  • Syphilitic (tabetic) arthropathy† (M14.6*)
  • Tabes dorsalis

Exclusions

  • Charcot arthropathy (G98†)
Parent: A52 Late syphilis