Heart and vascular system - MBS item (38252)

The following MBS item is included in this clinical category.

38252
Note: (pre-operative assessment - graft) the service only applies if the patient meets the requirements of the descriptor and the requirements of Note: TR.8.5 Selective coronary and graft angiography: (a) for a symptomatic patient with valvular or other non-coronary structural heart disease; and (b) as part of the management of the patient for: (i) pre-operative assessment for planning non-coronary cardiac surgery, including by transcatheter approaches; or (ii) evaluation of valvular heart disease or other non-coronary structural heart disease where clinical impression is discordant with non-invasive assessment; and (c) with placement of one or more catheters and injection of opaque material into the native coronary arteries; and (d) if free coronary grafts attached to the aorta or direct internal mammary artery grafts are present—with placement of one or more catheters and injection of opaque material into those grafts (irrespective of the number of grafts); and (e) with or without left heart catheterisation, left ventriculography or aortography; and (f) including all associated imaging; other than a service associated with a service to which item 38200, 38203, 38206, 38244, 38247, 38248, 38249 or 38251 applies—applicable once each 12 months (Anaes.)