J20.3: Acute bronchitis due to coxsackievirus
Your bronchial tubes are inflamed. The inflammation in your bronchial tubes was caused by coxsackieviruses.
The air is breathed in through the mouth or nose. From there the air goes into the trachea via the larynx. At the end of the windpipe are two bronchial tubes (or bronchi) branching away from it. The bronchial tubes run into the lungs. What is more, the bronchial tubes divide into even smaller branches. The larynx, the trachea, the bronchia and the lungs are part of the lower airways.
Your bronchial tubes are inflamed. You may thus have a cough and headache.
The inflammation in your bronchial tubes is caused by specific viruses. These viruses are called coxsackieviruses.
Additional indicator
On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.
- G: Confirmed diagnosis
- V: Tentative diagnosis
- Z: Condition after
- A: Excluded diagnosis
- L: Left
- R: Right
- B: Both sides
Further information
Source
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