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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 myocarditis and death from myocarditis.
Meaning of myocarditis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, myocarditis:
(a)          means an inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium); and
(b)          excludes inflammation associated with coronary artery disease.
(3)          While myocarditis attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes I40, I41, I01.2, I09.0, I51.4, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of myocarditis 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 myocarditis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, myocarditis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's myocarditis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.