027Q44Z

PCS Procedure

Dilate R Pulm Art w Drug-elut Intra, Perc Endo

Dilation of Right Pulmonary Artery with Drug-eluting Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach

About ICD-10-PCS code 027Q44Z

027Q44Z is the ICD-10-PCS procedure code for Dilation of Right Pulmonary Artery with Drug-eluting Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach. It belongs to PCS table 027, part of Section 0 (Medical and Surgical). The procedure targets the Heart and Great Vessels body system. Its root operation is Dilation. The approach used is Percutaneous Endoscopic.

Procedure Details

Section
[0] Medical and Surgical
Body System
Heart and Great Vessels
Root Operation
Dilation

Clinical Definitions

Root Operation · Operation
Dilation

Expanding an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part

The orifice can be a natural orifice or an artificially created orifice. Accomplished by stretching a tubular body part using intraluminal pressure or by cutting part of the orifice or wall of the tubular body part

Includes: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, internal urethrotomy

Approach · Approach
Percutaneous Endoscopic

Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach and visualize the site of the procedure

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