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Drug thrombin during embolization?

Date: Aug 7, 2019

Question:

"In an office, type 2 endoleak communicates with lumbar artery located at right posterolateral aspect of the sac. I attempted to catheterize the lumbar artery but could not get the catheter to advance over the wire into it. I aborted further attempts and placed coils immediately adjacent to the origin of the lumbar artery. Entire endoleak was coil embolized. While coils were deployed I periodically injected small amounts of thrombin." Can I code for the drug - thrombin?

Question ID : 12893
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