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Bypass Stenosis

Date: Jun 2, 2015

Question:

"The patient had stenosis of a previous fem-pop bypass. Access with cutdown due to previous placed kissing iliac stents. Angiography was performed, which showed the stenosis at the proximal anastomosis, which was angioplastied. A stent was deployed from the anastomosis down into the proximal graft. Sheath was removed and suture placed to close access site." What's the appropriate code here?

Question ID : 6463
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