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Official Description

Complications peculiar to certain specified procedures; Mechanical complication of other vascular device, implant, and graft
Mechanical complications involving:

aortic (bifurcation) graft (replacement)
arteriovenous:
dialysis catheter, fistula surgically created, shunt surgically created
balloon (counterpulsation) device, intra-aortic
carotid artery bypass graft
femoral-popliteal bypass graft
umbrella device, vena cava
Excludes: atherosclerosis of biological graft (440.30-440.32), embolism [occlusion NOS] [thrombus] of (biological) (synthetic) graft (996.74), peritoneal dialysis catheter (996.56)
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