Wiki Documentation criteria for left heart cath

[sheilacpc]

Can anyone tell me (along with providing a reference source) as to whether or not a left heart cath can be done on a patient with a aortic valve prosthesis?

Also, do you have any documentation as to what specifically needs to be documented for a left heart cath to be coding?

Thanks

 

[Jim Pawloski]

Can anyone tell me (along with providing a reference source) as to whether or not a left heart cath can be done on a patient with a aortic valve prosthesis?

Also, do you have any documentation as to what specifically needs to be documented for a left heart cath to be coding?

Thanks

Per Dr. Z's cardiovascular book, the catheter has to enter the left ventricle and pressures taken, to be a left heart catheterization. What I have seen, the doctors usually does not cross a aortic valve prosthesis.

HTH,
Jim Pawloski, CIRCC