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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about obstructive and reflux nephropathy and death from obstructive and reflux nephropathy.
Meaning of obstructive and reflux nephropathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, obstructive and reflux nephropathy:
(a)          means an acquired mechanical or functional impediment to normal urine flow, with urinary stasis and elevation in urinary tract pressure, causing:
                (i)             clinical or biochemical evidence of impaired renal function or renal parenchymal damage; or
                (ii)          calyceal deformity, or dilatation of the ureter (hydroureter) or renal pyelocalyceal system (hydronephrosis); and
(b)          includes renal scarring due to acquired vesicoureteric reflux; and
(c)           excludes acute, transient urinary retention not due to a fixed mechanical obstruction.
(3)          While obstructive and reflux nephropathy attracts ICD‑10‑AM code N13, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of obstructive and reflux nephropathy is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from obstructive and reflux nephropathy
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, obstructive and reflux nephropathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's obstructive and reflux nephropathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.