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The patient had left ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to a subaortic membrane as well as tubular hypoplasia of the area. Following sternotomy and aortotomy, the aortic valve leaflets were ...
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A patient with a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula presented for embolization of the right middle lobe lesions. Tornado coils were deployed into the right pulmonary artery that fed into a branch of t...
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In a patient with severe congenital mitral valve regurgitation, a suture was placed to create an Alfieri stitch bringing together the center A2 segment of the anterior leaflet and the center P2 seg...
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A patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome who is status post Norwood procedure and bidirectional Glenn procedure now presents for the Fontan completion procedure. The inferior vena cava was di...
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Would both the assistance (5A0) and the insertion (02H) codes be assigned for every type of external heart assist device, such as the Impella® regardless of whether or not the device was removed a...
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Does the fact that an Impella® device is left in for a few hours postoperatively have any bearing on code assignment? For example, if the device that was inserted percutaneously is left in at the ...
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When assigning the assistance code (5A0) for an Impella® device, how does the coding professional determine the appropriate Duration value, Intermittent or Continuous?
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The patient had a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure and both a right sided and left sided Impella® external heart assist device were placed percutaneously. The left sided device w...
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The patient is a 49-year-old male diagnosed with cardiogenic shock, dilated cardiomyopathy with end-stage heart failure, and Janus Kinase 2 mutation with hypercoagulable state. He was supported wit...
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There seems to be a discrepancy in the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS classification of hepatic flexure of the colon. ICD-10-CM classifies the hepatic flexure to the transverse colon, while the ICD-10-PC...
The hepatic ...