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A patient had insertion of a Swan Ganz catheter for monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure. Are two codes assigned to describe both the catheter insertion and pressure monitoring? Additionally, is...
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The patient had multiple drug-eluting stents placed percutaneously in three distinct lesions occurring in three separate coronary arteries: the first diagonal (D1) branch of the left anterior desce...
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A patient had one long mid-to-distal lesion in the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery, which was treated percutaneously with two drug-eluting stents. What is the appropriate body part v...
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The patient had a lesion in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery that was treated percutaneously with one drug-eluting stent and a lesion in the distal LAD artery that was treated wit...
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This patient had a lesion within the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery that extended into a branch artery of the LAD at the bifurcation and two drug-eluting stents were placed percutan...
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The patient had percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of the right coronary artery (RCA) with placement of two drug-eluting stents. He also had PTCA of the proximal and mid-po...
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A patient presents for transurethral treatment of a calculus of the left renal pelvis via ureteroscopy. The endoscope was inserted, the stone was initially fragmented by laser lithotripsy, and some...
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A patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with severe flank pain. Radiologic studies demonstrated a staghorn stone of the left kidney and a left ureter stone without obstruction or hydron...
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A patient with congenital hydrocephalus status post ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt was admitted due to shunt failure. The VP shunt had become free of its connection and had migrated into the abdom...
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The patient sustained a fall and ruptured the right patellar tendon and the left quadriceps tendon. He had open repair with allograft of right patellar tendon and open repair with allograft of left...
The surgical...