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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 multiple sclerosis and death from multiple sclerosis.
Meaning of multiple sclerosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, multiple sclerosis:
(a)          means a chronic relapsing-remitting or progressive disorder affecting the motor and sensory systems of the central nervous system and characterised by multiple focal regions of demyelination of neuronal axons, inflammation and gliosis occurring on multiple occasions; and
(b)          includes relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, primary progressive multiple sclerosis and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            clinically isolated syndrome;
(ii)         radiologically isolated syndrome;
(iii)       neuromyelitis optica;
(iv)        acute disseminated encephalomyelitis;
(v)          Marburg disease;
(vi)        Balo concentric sclerosis; and
(vii)     Schilder disease.
(3)          While multiple sclerosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G35, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of multiple sclerosis 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 multiple sclerosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, multiple sclerosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's multiple sclerosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.