Congenital syphilis A50
Congenital syphilis A50
Clinical Information
- A life-threatening bacterial infection of the newborn caused by treponema pallidum. It is transmitted to the infant from a mother with syphilis through the placenta during pregnancy. Signs and symptoms include irritability, fever, failure to thrive, saddle nose, cutaneous rash, and pneumonia.
- Syphilis acquired in utero and manifested by any of several characteristic tooth (hutchinson’s teeth) or bone malformations and by active mucocutaneous syphilis at birth or shortly thereafter. Ocular and neurologic changes may also occur.
Codes
- A50 Congenital syphilis
- A50.0 Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
- A50.01 Early congenital syphilitic oculopathy
- A50.02 Early congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy
- A50.03 Early congenital syphilitic pharyngitis
- A50.04 Early congenital syphilitic pneumonia
- A50.05 Early congenital syphilitic rhinitis
- A50.06 Early cutaneous congenital syphilis
- A50.07 Early mucocutaneous congenital syphilis
- A50.08 Early visceral congenital syphilis
- A50.09 Other early congenital syphilis, symptomatic
- A50.1 Early congenital syphilis, latent
- A50.2 Early congenital syphilis, unspecified
- A50.3 Late congenital syphilitic oculopathy
- A50.4 Late congenital neurosyphilis [juvenile neurosyphilis]
- A50.40 Late congenital neurosyphilis, unspecified
- A50.41 Late congenital syphilitic meningitis
- A50.42 Late congenital syphilitic encephalitis
- A50.43 Late congenital syphilitic polyneuropathy
- A50.44 Late congenital syphilitic optic nerve atrophy
- A50.45 Juvenile general paresis
- A50.49 Other late congenital neurosyphilis
- A50.5 Other late congenital syphilis, symptomatic
- A50.51 Clutton’s joints
- A50.52 Hutchinson’s teeth
- A50.53 Hutchinson’s triad
- A50.54 Late congenital cardiovascular syphilis
- A50.55 Late congenital syphilitic arthropathy
- A50.56 Late congenital syphilitic osteochondropathy
- A50.57 Syphilitic saddle nose
- A50.59 Other late congenital syphilis, symptomatic
- A50.6 Late congenital syphilis, latent
- A50.7 Late congenital syphilis, unspecified
- A50.9 Congenital syphilis, unspecified
- A50.0 Early congenital syphilis, symptomatic