KD39.4

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Fetus or newborn affected by complications of intrauterine fetal surgery

Description

Fetal surgery is the surgical treatment of a fetus still present in the uterus. It is performed when the fetus is suffering from a birth defect and is not expected to survive the delivery or live long after birth. It allows for the fetus to survive to birth, so that further corrective surgery can then be performed. Fetal surgery can be done in the following ways: fetoscopic surgery by using a fibreoptic scope to enter the uterus through small surgical openings, open fetal surgery by performing a hysterotomy which is an opening of the uterus, or radiofrequency ablation which cuts off the blood supply to a tumour.

Coding note from above levels

Conditions arising in the perinatal period, even though death or morbidity occurs later, should, as far as possible, be coded to chapter 19, which takes precedence over chapters containing codes for diseases by their anatomical site. For children less than 28 days old, assume that a reported condition developed in the perinatal period, unless the duration is stated and the onset was after the first completed week of life.

Index terms

  • Fetus or newborn affected by complications of intrauterine fetal surgery

Exclusions from above levels

  • KA02.Y – fetus and newborn affected by placental separation and haemorrhage due to intrauterine procedures
  • 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases - acquired after birth
  • 02 – Neoplasms
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  • 05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
  • 08 – Certain congenital diseases of the nervous system
  • 20 – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • 22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes
  • 3A10 – Hereditary haemolytic anaemia
  • 4A01.03 – Transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy
  • 9B71.3 – Retinopathy of prematurity
  • BC43 – congenital cardiomyopathy
  • DA93.0 – Paralytic ileus
  • EA50.Z – Pemphigus neonatorum
  • EH40.00 – Cradle cap
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/588616678 – Gastroenteritis or colitis of infectious origin
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/609214049 – Congenital gonococcal infection

Sibling codes

  • KD39.0 – Fetus or newborn affected by amniocentesis
  • KD39.1 – Fetus or newborn affected by chorionic villous sampling
  • KD39.2 – Fetus or newborn affected by fetal blood sampling
  • KD39.3 – Fetus or newborn affected by complications of fetal surgery
  • KD39.Y – Other specified complications of intrauterine procedures, not elsewhere classified
  • KD39.Z – Complications of intrauterine procedures, not elsewhere classified, unspecified

Foundation entity

Fetus or newborn affected by complications of intrauterine fetal surgery – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/295812158

Part of: KD39: Complications of intrauterine procedures, not elsewhere classified › 19: Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period