The CPT code is 33945
33945
0085T
If you mean cardiectomy, this means an incision into the heart.
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A person approved for heart transplantation is placed on the heart transplant waiting list of a heart transplant center.
A beating-heart transplant is a heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient.
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The reason Cristiaan Barnard is famous is because he was the first person to perform a heart transplant.
Radical cardiectomy.