Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
Billable / specific
A39.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Meningococcal hemorrhagic adrenalitis
- Meningococcic adrenal syndrome
Includes (from A39)
- diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-) (from A39)
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters (from A39)
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-) (from A39)
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39) (from A39)
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22) (from A39)
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Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Meningococcal hemorrhagic adrenalitis
- Meningococcic adrenal syndrome
- Adrenalitis, adrenitis, meningococcal, hemorrhagic
- Apoplexia, apoplexy, apoplectic, adrenal
- Disease, diseased, Waterhouse-Friderichsen
- Friderichsen-Waterhouse syndrome or disease
- Infection, infected, infective, meningococcal, adrenals
- Meningococcus, meningococcal, adrenalitis, hemorrhagic
- Sepsis, adrenal hemorrhage syndrome
- Syndrome, adrenal, hemorrhage
- Syndrome, adrenal, meningococcic
- Syndrome, Friderichsen-Waterhouse
- Syndrome, septicemic adrenal hemorrhage
- Syndrome, Waterhouse
- Waterhouse
Parent code
- A39Meningococcal infectionHeader