A surgeon performed an aortic valve replacement with patch aortic root enlargement for treatment of

A surgeon performed an aortic valve replacement with patch aortic root enlargement for treatment of aortic valve endocarditis. In addition, there was a subannular abscess burrowing from the ventricular outflow tract into the left atrium in which the abscess was debrided and the aortic valve reconstructed with a bovine pericardial patch. What is the appropriate code(s) to report?

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