Preoperative comorbidities included diabetes mellitus (ICD 10 codes, E10-E14), hypertension (I10-I15), cardiac diseases (I20-I25, ischemic heart diseases; I30-I52, other forms of heart diseases), cerebrovascular disease (I60-I69), chronic lung diseases (J40-J47), liver cirrhosis (K74), and...
Before the advent in October 2000 of a separate endovascular code for AAA repair,4 endovascular repairs were included under ICD-9-CM code 39.52. The “amputation” category was further subdivided into major and minor amputations. The “lower extremity revascularization” category included both infra...