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| F05 | Delirium,
not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances
An etiologically nonspecific organic cerebral syndrome characterized
by concurrent disturbances of consciousness and attention, perception,
thinking, memory, psychomotor behaviour, emotion, and the sleep-wake
schedule. The duration is variable and the degree of severity ranges
from mild to very severe. |
| Includes: | acute
or subacute: |
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- brain syndrome
- confusional state
(nonalcoholic)
- infective psychosis
- organic reaction
- psycho-organic
syndrome
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| Excludes: | delirium
tremens, alcohol-induced or unspecified (F10.4) |
| F05.0 | Delirium
not superimposed on dementia, so described |
| F05.1 | Delirium
superimposed on dementia
Conditions meeting
the above criteria but developing in the course of a dementia (F00-F03).
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| F05.8 | Other
delirium
Delirium of mixed origin |
| F05.9 | Delirium,
unspecified |
| F06 | Other
mental disorders due to brain damage and dysfunction and to physical
disease
Includes miscellaneous conditions causally related to brain disorder
due to primary cerebral disease, to systemic disease affecting the
brain secondarily, to exogenous toxic substances or hormones, to
endocrine disorders, or to other somatic illnesses. |
| Excludes: | associated
with: |
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- delirium (F05.-)
- dementia as classified
in F00-F03 resulting from use of alcohol and other psychoactive
substances (F10-F19)
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The International Classification
of Diseases, Section F05, page 316, 1992. Reprinted by permission from
the World Health Organization.
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