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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 rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis and death from rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Meaning of rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis means a form of glomerulonephritis where there are extensive cellular crescents on histopathology and a rapid decline in renal function over a period of weeks to months.
Death from rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.