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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 rheumatic heart disease and death from rheumatic heart disease.
Meaning of rheumatic heart disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, rheumatic heart disease:
(a)          means a clinically or echocardiographically documented cardiac disease, commonly involving the mitral or aortic valve, that follows acute rheumatic fever; and
(b)          includes pathological stenosis or regurgitation in the presence of scarring, deformity or morphological change of at least one heart valve, chronic rheumatic myocarditis and chronic rheumatic pericarditis; and
(c)          excludes acute carditis of acute rheumatic fever.
Note:  Rheumatic heart disease can be diagnosed in the absence of previously documented acute rheumatic fever.
(3)          While rheumatic heart disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I05, I06, I07, I08 or I09, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of rheumatic heart disease 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 rheumatic heart disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, rheumatic heart disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's rheumatic heart disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.