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TAVR Cutdowns in Two Different Legs

Date: May 23, 2014

Question:

Right side femoral was cutdown to do the TAVR, but catheters could not be passed due to PVD, so the left side iliac artery was cutdown and TAVR was performed successfully. Would we code anything for the abandoned initial cutdown? Our TAVR was coded with 33364.

Question ID : 5729
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