AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2006 Issue 3; Ask the Editor

Coronary Stent Stenosis and Acute Myocardial Infarction

The patient, an 80-year old woman, was admitted with acute inferior myocardial infarction, due to coronary stent thrombosis. She had been discharged one day earlier after she had undergone angioplasty with placement of right coronary artery drug-eluting stent. She was urgently taken back to the cardiac catheterization laboratory where right and left coronary angiography, stent recanalization via percutaneous coronary intervention with thrombectomy, intravascular ultrasound and Integrilin infusion were performed. How should this case be coded? ...

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