MG44.11

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Failure to thrive in infant or child

Description

When an infant or child's current weight or rate of weight gain is significantly below that of other children of similar age and gender.

Index terms

  • Failure to thrive in infant or child
  • FTT - [failure to thrive] syndrome
  • failure to gain weight
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  • failure to thrive NOS

Excludes

  • 6B80 – Anorexia Nervosa
  • 6B83 – Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder
  • KD32.4 – Failure to thrive in newborn
  • MG20 – Cachexia

Exclusions from above levels

  • 5A91 – Delayed puberty
  • 6A00 – Disorders of intellectual development
  • 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
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  • JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

  • MG44.10 – Delayed milestone
  • MG44.12 – Short stature of child
  • MG44.13 – Constitutional delay of growth and puberty
  • MG44.14 – Familial short stature
  • MG44.1Y – Other specified lack of expected normal physiological development
  • MG44.1Z – Lack of expected normal physiological development, unspecified

Foundation entity

Failure to thrive in infant or child – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1232517390

Part of: MG44.1: Lack of expected normal physiological development › MG44: Symptoms peculiar to infancy › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified