AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2017 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-PCS Procedure Codes

Intraoperative Treatment of Vascular Grafts

New code table XY0, Extracorporeal, Introduction, identifies an intraoperative treatment of vein grafts during coronary artery bypass or peripheral artery bypass, intended to prevent future graft failure and progression of disease within the graft.  Body PartDevice/Substance/TechnologyV Vein Graft 8 Endothelial Damage Inhibitor For example, when the saphenous vein is harvested to serve as a vein graft during the bypass procedure, it is flushed with a tissue preservation solution that is engineered to inhibit damage to the endothelial cells lining its lumen. The harvested vein graft is then placed in the solution to soak until immediately before anastomosis takes...

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