B57.0
Acute Chagas' disease with heart involvement
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 7 never code together
A00-B99chapter
Excludes1
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
Excludes2
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)Z22.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)O98.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)P35-P39
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)J00-J22
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 5
Index entries leading here 2
Alongside this code 5 same parent — B57
B57.1 Acute Chagas' disease without heart involvement B57.2 Chagas' disease (chronic) with heart involvement B57.3 Chagas' disease (chronic) with digestive system involvement category B57.4 Chagas' disease (chronic) with nervous system involvement category B57.5 Chagas' disease (chronic) with other organ involvement
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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