Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts

Introduced: January 2013

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents > Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts

CPC:

Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents (dental prostheses A61C13/00; artificial kidneys A61M1/14; artificial hearts A61M60/00) > Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts

CPC subdivides this area 3x more granularly than IPC with 5 additional codes.

5 codes are CPC-only extensions.

Note: 3 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.

IPC defines codes here since 2013.

Child Classifications

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A61F 2/9517 CPC only CPC only
A61F 2/9522 +3 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61F 2/954 for placing stents or stent-grafts in a bifurcation since 2013 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61F 2/958 Inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts since 2013 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61F 2/962 having an outer sleeve since 2013 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61F 2002/9505 2nd only +1 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61F 2002/9528 2nd only CPC only CPC only
A61F 2002/9534 2nd only CPC only CPC only