CPT® 78468, Under Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine Procedures on the Cardiovascular System
The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 78468 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine Procedures on the Cardiovascular System.
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Summary
In this procedure, the provider performs planar nuclear imaging of heart muscle after the injection of a radioactive substance that accumulates in the area of damaged myocardium. The test helps to identify and locate the damage that a recent myocardial infarction might have caused. He also determines the ejection fraction of the ventricles by measuring the change in radioactivity as the radioactive substance travels through the heart.
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