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6               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about central serous chorioretinopathy and death from central serous chorioretinopathy.
     Meaning of central serous chorioretinopathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, central serous chorioretinopathy:
(a)          means a serous detachment of the neurosensory retina affecting central vision; and
(b)           includes acute, recurrent and chronic serous retinal detachment; and
(c)           excludes retinal detachment due to a retinal tear (rhegmatogenous retinal detachment), and leakage through the retinal pigment epithelium caused by diseases of the choroid, including choroidal neovascularisation, choroidal vasculopathy, choroidal tumours, choroidal metastases and posterior uveitis.
(3)          While central serous chorioretinopathy attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H35.7, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of central serous chorioretinopathy 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 central serous chorioretinopathy
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, central serous chorioretinopathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's central serous chorioretinopathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.