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Acute pyelonephritis

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HierarchyN10-N16 · N10

Code-level instructions

Includes
  • Acute infectious interstitial nephritis
  • Acute pyelitis
  • Acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis
  • Hemoglobin nephrosis
  • Myoglobin nephrosis
Use additional code

code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent.

Inherited instructions

Chapters 14 · Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99)

Excludes 2
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

N10-N16 · Renal tubulo-interstitial diseases (N10-N16)

Includes

pyelonephritis

Excludes 1

pyeloureteritis cystica (N28.85)

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