ICD-11 code : 1F40;
Preferred Label : Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum;
ICD-11 definition : A disease caused by an infection with the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
This disease is characterized by fever, chills, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, weakness,
vomiting, or diarrhoea. This disease may also present with splenomegaly, anaemia,
thrombocytopenia, hypoglycaemia, pulmonary or renal dysfunction, or neurologic changes.
Transmission is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Confirmation is by identification
of Plasmodium falciparum in a blood sample.;
ICD-11 synonym : malarial quotidian; black water fever; West African fever; estivo-autumnal malaria; malignant tertian malaria; falciparum fever; malignant malaria; aestivo autumnal malaria; malaria tropica; continued malaria fever; pernicious malaria; mt -[malignant tertian malaria]; blackwater fever; bilious hemoglobinuric fever; mtm - [malignant tertian malaria]; malarial hematinuria; acute pernicious fever; estivo-autumnal fever; malignant tertian fever; pernicious intermittent fever; hemoglobinuric fever; st; malarial hemoglobinuria; aestivo-autumnal fever; subtertian fever; mtm; subtertian malignant tertian malaria; malarial blackwater fever; malarial shock; subtertian malaria fever; malarial hematuria; hemoglobinuric malaria; algid malaria; st - [subtertian malaria]; falciparum malaria [malignant tertian]; severe plasmodium falciparum malaria; Chagres fever; quotidian malaria; estivo-autumnal malarial fever; severe malarial falciparum; tropical malaria; panama fever; Chagres virus disease; subtertian malaria;
ICD-11 "other" category code : 1F40.Y;
ICD-11 "unspecified" category code : 1F40.Z;
Origin ID : 579583286;
UMLS CUI : C0024535;
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A disease caused by an infection with the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
This disease is characterized by fever, chills, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, weakness,
vomiting, or diarrhoea. This disease may also present with splenomegaly, anaemia,
thrombocytopenia, hypoglycaemia, pulmonary or renal dysfunction, or neurologic changes.
Transmission is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Confirmation is by identification
of Plasmodium falciparum in a blood sample.