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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 hereditary spherocytosis and death from hereditary spherocytosis.
Meaning of hereditary spherocytosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hereditary spherocytosis means a group of genetic disorders of red blood cells, involving the production of spherical red blood cells which are susceptible to haemolysis.
Note: Clinical manifestations include haemolytic anaemia, jaundice and splenomegaly.
(3)          While hereditary spherocytosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D58.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hereditary spherocytosis 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 hereditary spherocytosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hereditary spherocytosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hereditary spherocytosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.