06Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders
Disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviours
Disorders due to substance use
6C40Disorders due to use of alcohol
6C40.4Alcohol withdrawal
6C40.42
category
Alcohol withdrawal with seizures
Definition All diagnostic requirements for Alcohol withdrawal are met and the withdrawal state is accompanied by seizures (i.e., generalised tonic-clonic seizures) but not by perceptual disturbances.
Also indexed as
Acute seizures due to alcohol withdrawal Alcohol withdrawal with seizures
Nearby in Alcohol withdrawal
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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