Pulmonary artery graft surgery
Here you'll find our current definition of the critical illness, additional condition or child specific condition we cover. We've also listed any previous definitions we may have had. With each new definition we've highlighted what's changed from the previous definition.
Current definition
March 2020
Pulmonary artery graft surgery
The undergoing of, or inclusion on the NHS waiting list for, surgery on the advice of a consultant cardiologist for disease of the pulmonary artery to excise and replace the diseased pulmonary artery with a graft.
Change from the previous definition
We've added advanced surgery benefit so that we now pay out on inclusion on NHS surgery wait list.
Previous definitions
December 2018
Pulmonary artery graft surgery
The undergoing of surgery on the advice of a consultant cardiologist for disease of the pulmonary artery to excise and replace the diseased pulmonary artery with a graft.
Change from the previous definition
We've expended the definition to cover all types of pulmonary heart graft surgery, not just surgery to divide the breastbone. This inculdes thoracotomies and endovascular procedures.
November 2015
Pulmonary artery graft surgery – with surgery to divide the breastbone
The undergoing of surgery requiring median sternotomy (surgery to divide the breastbone) on the advice of a consultant cardiologist for disease of the pulmonary artery to excise and replace the diseased pulmonary artery with a graft.