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A 4-month-old boy with a large conoventricular ventricular septal defect (VSD) with mild aortic override and mild anterior deviation of the conal septum was admitted for surgical repair. The surgeo...
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In ICD-10-CM’s Tabular List, Chapter 15, Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), there is an instructional note that states “Use additional code from category Z3A, Weeks of gestatio...
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The patient is a 78-year-old man who presents with a nonhealing wound over his right lower leg. The patient underwent excisional debridement of right Achilles tendon and first stage coverage of the...
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The patient, who has ventricular tachycardia (VT), was admitted for ventricular tachycardia ablation. The ablation was performed percutaneously and Impella® 2.5 support was used. What are the code...
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The patient has a previously placed Baclofen pump, which has reached the end of its service life. He underwent open removal and replacement of the Baclofen medication pump. During the procedure, th...
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The patient is a 74-year-old male who had 100% occlusion of the circumflex artery and occlusion of the right coronary artery with tight ostial stenosis of the left anterior descending artery. The p...
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The patient presented with a mass of the right superficial parotid gland and underwent right superficial parotidectomy. What is the appropriate root operation for right superficial parotidectomy (...
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The patient presented with a large pituitary macroadenoma with suprasellar extension. He underwent transsphenoidal removal of pituitary tumor with placement of fat graft. There does not appear to b...
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The patient is a 20-year-old male with maxillary hypoplasia. He underwent a Le Fort 1 osteotomy with extraction (open) of impacted teeth, insertion of internal fixation device, and placement of a c...
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A 5-week-old baby, who is diagnosed with lipomyelomeningocele and tethered cord, presents for untethering of the cord, excision of the lipoma, which involved the lumbosacral portion of the spinal c...
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