AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 4 (April)
Transplant Surgery Codes (April 2005)
April 2005 pages 10-12 Coding Communication:Transplant Surgery Codes The first living donor kidney transplantation was performed in the United States in 1954. Since then, solid organ transplantation has rapidly evolved. Multiple factors have contributed to this evolution, including increased interest from living donors. Yet despite the increase of interest from living donors, a discrepancy still exists between the number of potential recipients and the number of donors, which has resulted in increasing the utility of organs from deceased donors, thereby widening the pool of transplant organs available today. Technological advancements and better surgical skills allow today's transplant surgeons to...
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