1. I40 Acute myocarditis

    Includes:

    • subacute myocarditis

    Excludes1

    • acute rheumatic myocarditis (I01.2)
    1. I40.0 Infective myocarditis

      Inclusion term(s):

      • Septic myocarditis
    2. I40.1 Isolated myocarditis

      Inclusion term(s):

      • Fiedler's myocarditis
      • Giant cell myocarditis
      • Idiopathic myocarditis
    3. I40.8 Other acute myocarditis

    4. I40.9 Acute myocarditis, unspecified

Abbreviations used here:

NEC Not elsewhere classifiable
This abbreviation in the Tabular List represents “other specified”. When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Tabular List includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the “other specified” code.

NOS Not otherwise specified
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.