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PCI, second stent placed in RC marginal branch to occlude artery.

Date: May 5, 2023

Question:

A stent was placed in the severe calcified lesion in the RC. Then another stent was placed in the RC acute marginal branch and was stented across in order to save the main RC and was occluded and the end procedure end. What should be the code if any for the stent placed to occlude the marginal branch? 

Question ID : 18779
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