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Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents: Evolution, Evidence and Stent Choice

…intervention (PCI). They evolved from balloon angioplasty and bare metal stents (BMS) in response to restenosis caused principally by neointimal hyperplasia. Contemporary DES combine a…

In-Stent Restenosis: Mechanisms and Treatment

…the stent progressively reduce the lumen. The stent scaffold prevents the external constriction that characterizes restenosis after balloon angioplasty. The biological response therefore occurs primarily…

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Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes — In patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), what i…

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ICD-10-CM
Z95.820 — Peripheral vascular…
Z98.6 — Angioplasty status
Z98.61 — Coronary angioplasty…
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C1725 — Catheter, transluminal angioplasty, non-laser (may include guidance, infusion/perfusion capability)
C1885 — Catheter, transluminal angioplasty, laser
C2623 — Catheter, transluminal angioplasty, drug-coated, non-laser
C7532 — Transluminal balloon angioplasty (except lower extremity artery(ies) for occlusive disease, intracranial, coronary, pulmonary, or dialysis circuit), initial artery, open or percutaneous, including all imaging and radiological supervision and interpretation necessary to perform the angioplasty within the same artery, with intravascular ultrasound (initial noncoronary vessel) during diagnostic evaluation and/or therapeutic intervention, including radiological supervision and interpretation
C7533 — Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, single major coronary artery or branch with transcatheter placement of radiation delivery device for subsequent coronary intravascular brachytherapy
C7563 — Transluminal balloon angioplasty (except lower extremity artery(ies) for occlusive disease, intracranial, coronary, pulmonary, or dialysis circuit), open or percutaneous, including all imaging and radiological supervision and interpretation necessary to perform the angioplasty within the same artery, initial artery and all additional arteries
C7569 — Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, single major coronary artery or branch with endoluminal imaging of initial coronary vessel or graft using intravascular ultrasound (ivus) or optical coherence tomography (oct) during diagnostic evaluation and/or therapeutic intervention including imaging supervision, interpretation and report
C7571 — Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, single major coronary artery or branch with percutaneous transluminal coronary lithotripsy
C9610 — Catheter, transluminal drug delivery with or without angioplasty, coronary, non-laser (insertable)
C7531 — Revascularization, endovascular, open or percutaneous, femoral, popliteal artery(ies), unilateral, with transluminal angioplasty with intravascular ultrasound (initial noncoronary vessel) during diagnostic evaluation and/or therapeutic intervention, including radiological supervision and interpretation