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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 cardiac myxoma and death from cardiac myxoma.
Meaning of cardiac myxoma
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, cardiac myxoma means a benign neoplasm of the heart composed of primitive connective tissue cells and stroma resembling mesenchyme and usually arising from the atria of the heart.
(3)          While cardiac myxoma attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D15.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of cardiac myxoma 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from cardiac myxoma
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, cardiac myxoma, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's cardiac myxoma.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.