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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 thromboangiitis obliterans and death from thromboangiitis obliterans.
Meaning of thromboangiitis obliterans
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, thromboangiitis obliterans means a nonatherosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory, occlusive vascular disease affecting the small and medium-sized arteries and veins.
Note: Thromboangiitis obliterans is also known as Buerger's disease.
(3)          While thromboangiitis obliterans attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I73.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of thromboangiitis obliterans 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), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from thromboangiitis obliterans
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, thromboangiitis obliterans, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's thromboangiitis obliterans.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.