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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 aplastic anaemia and death from aplastic anaemia.
Meaning of aplastic anaemia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, aplastic anaemia:
(a)          means bone marrow failure, characterised by:
(i)            destruction of haematopoietic stem cells with peripheral blood cytopaenia; and
(ii)         hypocellular bone marrow in which normal haematopoietic tissue is replaced by fatty marrow; and
(b)          excludes:
(i)            inherited bone marrow failure syndromes, including Fanconi anaemia, dyskeratosis congenita, Shwachman-Diamond syndrome and inherited amegakaryocytic thrombocytopaenia;
(ii)         isolated leukopaenia and isolated thrombocytopaenia;
(iii)       myelodysplastic syndrome;
(iv)        paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; and
(v)          replacement of bone marrow due to fibrosis or an infiltrative neoplastic process.
(3)          While aplastic anaemia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D61.1, D61.2, D61.3 or D61.8, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of aplastic anaemia 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 aplastic anaemia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, aplastic anaemia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's aplastic anaemia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.