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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 mitral valve prolapse and death from mitral valve prolapse.
Meaning of mitral valve prolapse
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, mitral valve prolapse:
(a)          means a degenerative, structural disorder of the mitral valve apparatus in which there is systolic displacement of an abnormally thickened or redundant mitral leaflet into the left atrium, and where this disorder has been confirmed by echocardiographic studies; and
(b)          excludes:
(i)            flail mitral valve leaflet;
(ii)         inherited connective tissue disorders including Marfan syndrome;
(iii)       isolated mitral regurgitation in the absence of echocardiographic evidence of mitral valve prolapse; and
(iv)        mitral valve disorder due to rheumatic heart disease.
Note 1: Mitral valve prolapse is also known as Barlow syndrome, Barlow disease or floppy mitral valve syndrome.
Note 2: The diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse does not include displacement or billowing of the anterior mitral valve leaflet identified only in the 4-chamber apical view.
(3)          While mitral valve prolapse attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I34.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of mitral valve prolapse 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 mitral valve prolapse
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, mitral valve prolapse, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's mitral valve prolapse.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.