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CPT® 33606, Under Repair Procedures for Single Ventricle and Other Complex Cardiac Anomalies

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 33606 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Repair Procedures for Single Ventricle and Other Complex Cardiac Anomalies.

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The provider joins the pulmonary artery to the aorta to correct a congenital deformity called double inlet ventricle in which the patient has only one functional ventricle, the left, which both the aorta and the pulmonary artery enter. The procedure reduces excessive blood flow into the ventricle.

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