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Boost Your Confidence For Balloon Dilatation Of Vasospastic Narrowing

Published on Fri Aug 02, 2013

Always report multiple attempts and multiple dilatations. When reporting balloon dilation for vasospastic narrowing in intracranial vessels, you focus on some distinct codes. Vasospastic narrowing has specific codes that differ from those of atherosclerotic narrowing. Clinical focus: "Vasospasms are typically caused by acute subarachnoid hemorrhage rather than the chronic cerebrovascular disease responsible for atherosclerotic narrowing," says Gregory Przybylski, MD, director [...]
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