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A patient, who is status post right mastectomy, is admitted for deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction with nerve conduit neurotization. During surgery, the recipient...
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A patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted for placement of endobronchial valves into the left lower lobe bronchus. The scope was advanced and bronchial valves were placed in...
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ICD-10-PCS Guideline B3.10c on Fusion Procedures of the Spine advises how to code combinations of devices and materials that are used for fusion of a vertebral joint. However, there is confusion re...
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A newborn patient with posthemorrhagic neonatal hydrocephalus underwent insertion of a subgaleal shunt. An incision was made in the scalp and an extensive subgaleal cerebral spinal fluid pocket was...
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A 70-year-old male patient has a history of cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial occlusive disease. He has had bilateral carotid endarterectomies and bilateral femoral popliteal artery bypass gr...
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A patient with severe symptomatic prosthetic aortic stenosis and regurgitation underwent transfemoral valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The provider applied electrocaut...
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A patient underwent rotational atherectomy and stenting of her coronary artery. Following the rotational atherectomy, angiography revealed a perforation in the proximal circumflex coronary artery a...
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A patient with congenital absence of the vagina (vaginal agenesis) is admitted for vaginal construction. The physician performed a laparoscopic-assisted colovaginoplasty with development of sigmoid...
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A patient with adenocarcinoma of the appendix with peritoneal metastasis presented for scheduled hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The patient underwent cytoreductive surgery, alon...
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The patient is a 75-year-old male with coronary artery disease, who is admitted for a nonST elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography reveals a heavily calcified 80% left main stenosis....
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