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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 aortic stenosis and death from aortic stenosis.
Meaning of aortic stenosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, aortic stenosis:
(a)          means obstruction of the blood flow across the aortic valve due to thickening and calcification of the aortic valve; and
(b)          excludes:
(i)            aortic stenosis due to rheumatic heart disease;
(ii)         congenital stenosis of the aortic valve; and
(iii)       obstruction to blood flow across the aortic valve due to narrowing of the supravalvular or subvalvular regions.
            Note 1: Symptoms of aortic stenosis typically include shortness of breath or chest pain on exertion, dizziness and fainting (syncope).
            Note 2: Aortic stenosis is usually confirmed by echocardiography and demonstration of a significant pressure gradient (a maximum aortic velocity of at least 2 metres/second).
(3)          While aortic stenosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I35.0 or I35.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of aortic stenosis 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 aortic stenosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, aortic stenosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's aortic stenosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.