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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 chronic gastritis and chronic gastropathy and death from chronic gastritis and chronic gastropathy.
Meaning of chronic gastritis and chronic gastropathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles:
(a)          chronic gastritis means inflammation of the gastric mucosa with histologically demonstrated chronic inflammatory cell infiltrate; and
(b)          chronic gastropathy means:
(i)             histologically demonstrated gastric epithelial cell damage and regeneration with minimal or no associated inflammation; and
(ii)          the presence of clinical manifestations that have persisted for at least 3 consecutive months.
            Note: Clinical manifestations of chronic gastritis and chronic gastropathy typically include epigastric pain, nausea, bloating and burning.
(c)          chronic gastritis and chronic gastropathy exclude:
(i)            acute gastritis;
(ii)         acute gastropathy;
(iii)       autoimmune gastritis;
(iv)        chronic non-infectious granulomatous gastritis;
(v)          eosinophilic gastritis;
(vi)        gastric antral vascular ectasia;
(vii)     ischaemic gastritis;
(viii)   lymphocytic gastritis;
(ix)        portal hypertensive gastropathy;
(x)          stress gastritis/ulcer; and
(xi)        uraemic gastritis.
Death from chronic gastritis and chronic gastropathy
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic gastritis or chronic gastropathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chronic gastritis or chronic gastropathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.