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Does the following documentation support 93567 when performed with a heart catheterization procedure? "A French pigtail diagnostic catheter was inserted over the diagnostic Versacore wire advanced into the aorta. Diagnostic wire removed from the body. Pigtail catheter introduced into left ventricle. A pressure was recorded. Left ventriculography was performed using 36 ml of contrast. Post left ventricular pressure followed by the measurement of the gradient across the aortic valve using the pullback technique." (In the findings, the pressure measurements are recorded.) Contrast was not injected, nor were there any aorta images obtained, but they did obtain pressure measurements.