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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2002 Third Quarter
Pseudoaneurysm Following Cardiac Catheterization
The Central Office on ICD-9-CM has received several questions regarding information published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter 1990. Advice was given to assign code 998.2, Accidental puncture or laceration during a procedure, for a false aneurysm of the femoral artery, which occurred following cardiac catheterization. Coders are questioning whether code 997.2, Peripheral vascular complications, should be assigned instead of code 998.2.
Code 997.2, Peripheral vascular complication, should be reported for these cases. A pseudoaneurysm or false aneurysm normally occurs at the site of previous vascular surgery or vessel puncture, resulting from a rent or defect...
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