BE10

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Postcardiotomy syndrome

Description

Postcardiotomy syndrome is a hypersensitivity reaction to antigen derived from injured myocardium 3 weeks to 2 months after myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery, or penetrating and non penetrating heart injury. The diagnosis is made by history of heart injury, and exclusion of other diseases such as congestive heart failure, recurrent myocardial infarction, endocarditis, myocarditis, and pericarditis.

Index terms

  • Postcardiotomy syndrome
  • cardiotomy syndrome
  • mitral commissurotomy syndrome
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  • post pericardiotomy syndrome
  • postcommissurotomy syndrome
  • postpericardiotomy syndrome
  • postvalvulotomy syndrome

Exclusions from above levels

  • 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  • 05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
  • 18 – Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
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  • 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
  • 20 – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • 22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes

Sibling codes

  • BE11 – Other functional disturbances following cardiac surgery
  • BE12 – Postprocedural valve disorders
  • BE13 – Postprocedural true or false aortic aneurysm
  • BE14 – Postprocedural disorder of circulatory system following repair of congenital heart or great vessel anomaly
  • BE15 – Postprocedural pulmonary arterial tree disorder
  • BE16 – Postprocedural pulmonary venous disorder
  • BE17 – Postprocedural residual or recurrent interatrial communication
  • BE19 – Postprocedural ventricular abnormality
  • BE1A – Cardiac transplant associated coronary allograft vasculopathy
  • BE1B – Lymphoedema due to surgery or radiotherapy
  • BE1C – Inferior caval vein obstruction due to foreign body
  • BE1D – Superior caval vein obstruction due to foreign body
  • BE1E – Postprocedural right atrial complication
  • BE1F – Postprocedural left atrial complication

Foundation entity

Postcardiotomy syndrome – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/2070021724

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: 11: Diseases of the circulatory system