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The patient, who is status post coronary artery bypass grafting earlier in the day, was noted to have a significant right ventricular infarction at the time of the bypass. The patient had a seeming...
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The patient underwent fibrin sheath stripping of a port-a-catheter in the superior vena cava. The right common femoral vein was accessed with a micropuncture needle. The distal tip of a long French...
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An 80-year-old patient with an indwelling perma-cath presented because the catheter was malfunctioning. While in the hospital, the patient underwent balloon angioplasty of the superior vena cava to...
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A patient was diagnosed with severe tricuspid regurgitation requiring treatment by transcatheter implantation of a Sapien valve within two caval noncovered stents. The procedure was aimed to elimin...
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A patient diagnosed with a stenotic aortic valve underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement via the transaortic approach. A mini sternotomy was performed and the surgeon noted large mediastin...
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The patient was admitted to the hospital because of persistent priapism lasting three days, and underwent Al-Ghorab distal penile shunt surgery. Per the ICD-10-PCS Alphabetic Index, shunt procedure...
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When a newborn has a routine circumcision done in the hospital during the birth episode, would it be appropriate to assign code Z41.2, Encounter for routine or ritual male circumcision, in addition...
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