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CPT® 33542, Under Arterial Grafting for Coronary Artery Bypass

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 33542 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Arterial Grafting for Coronary Artery Bypass.

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The provider opens and removes an aneurysm sac from the wall of a ventricle of the heart and sutures the defect closed to strengthen the heart wall and prevent rupture of the aneurysm, typically during a coronary artery bypass graft procedure.

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CABG with left ventricular aneurysm plication
[b]Ventricular Aneurysm[/b] Try looking at CPT 33542.... [ Read More ]
Repair of left ventricular aneurysm
Hi there, pt is under going a CABG surgery and during the surgery the physician discovers a ventricle aneurysm so he decides to repair it by entering the left ventricle and suturing a pericardial patc... [ Read More ]
Ventricle aneurysm repair
Try looking at 33542.... [ Read More ]
Repair Left ventricular outflow tract Pseudoaneurysm
[b]LVOT aneurysm repair[/b] Hello, Look at CPT 33542 for this one. Janet Kidneigh CPC CCS... [ Read More ]
Free Wall Rupture
For code 33542, the aneurysm is resected. If nothing is resected and just a repair of the ventricular wall is done, I would use 33548. Lisi, CPC... [ Read More ]
Free Wall Rupture
Hello - I am looking for a code of a free wall rupture (left ventricular)repair w/CABG. I am coming up with 33542 or 33305? Any other suggestions? Thanks! Amie... [ Read More ]
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