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Date: Sep 6, 2011

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Greetings, I have a repeat patient that I emailed for coding advice before. The pt had 3 grafts excised on one arm. The pt is back and now has a mycotic pseudoaneurysm at the repair. The brachial graft was infected. They removed the graft(35903). They also performed a axillary-brachal bypass (35522) and also removed the aneurysm when they removed the graft. Are these two codes that you would code? I would not code the aneurysm removal as it was removed with part of the infected graft. LW

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