AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2015 Issue 3; Ask the Editor

Bilateral Renal Artery Bypass

A patient with history of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair has developed an extension in the perivisceral aorta. Bilateral renal artery bypass was performed due to the nature of the disease and location of the renal arteries. An end-to-end anastomosis was performed between the right renal artery and the gastroduodenal artery (a branch of the hepatic artery), and between the left renal artery and the splenic artery. How is this procedure coded? ...

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