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35102

Date: Sep 16, 2011

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Greetings, A patient has a infected aortobifemoral bypass graft that is excised. They debbridement of the end of the aorta. A crypopreserved aorto illiac graft is placed. End to end anastomosis to the aorta,the right side was end to end anastomosed to the femoral bifurcation , on the left a end to side anastomosis was formed to the superficial femoral artery. Is this truly a bypass or a graft placement even though this was not completed for a aneurysm. Would you use 35646 or 35102. I was even looking at code 34832. Any help would be great. Thanks, LW

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