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ICD-9-CM. 36.09, 00.66. [ edit on Wikidata] Percutaneous coronary intervention ( PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. [ 2] The procedure is used to place and deploy coronary stents, a permanent wire-meshed tube, to open narrowed ...
ICD-9-CM. 39.1. MeSH. D019168. [ edit on Wikidata] Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt ( TIPS or TIPSS) is an artificial channel within the liver that establishes communication between the inflow portal vein and the outflow hepatic vein. It is used to treat portal hypertension (which is often due to liver cirrhosis) which frequently ...
ICD-9-CM. 36.06. [ edit on Wikidata] A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, to keep the arteries open in patients suffering from coronary heart disease. The vast majority of stents used in modern interventional cardiology are drug-eluting stents (DES).
D002760. OPS-301 code. 1-642. [ edit on Wikidata] Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP) is a technique that combines the use of endoscopy and fluoroscopy to diagnose and treat certain problems of the biliary or pancreatic ductal systems. It is primarily performed by highly skilled and specialty trained gastroenterologists.
Endovascular aneurysm repair ( EVAR) is a type of minimally-invasive endovascular surgery used to treat pathology of the aorta, most commonly an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). When used to treat thoracic aortic disease, the procedure is then specifically termed TEVAR for "thoracic endovascular aortic/aneurysm repair."
MeSH. D017130. LOINC. 36760-7. [ edit on Wikidata] Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty ( PTA ), is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis.
The patient's head (not seen) is at the bottom. Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft ( CABG, pronounced "cabbage"), is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart. It can relieve chest pain caused by CAD, slow the progression of CAD, and ...
ICD-9-CM. 35.84. [ edit on Wikidata] Arterial switch operation ( ASO) or arterial switch, is an open heart surgical procedure used to correct dextro-transposition of the great arteries ( d-TGA ). [ 1][ 2] Its development was pioneered by Canadian cardiac surgeon William Mustard and it was named for Brazilian cardiac surgeon Adib Jatene, who was ...