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(d)          undergoing a procedure to the heart or the carotid artery, or an intravascular procedure involving the vessels of the head or neck, within the seven days before the clinical worsening of retinal vascular occlusion;
             Note 1: Examples of a procedure to the heart include:
                    (a)             cardiac surgery or cardiac catheterisation;
                    (b)            coronary angiography; and
                    (c)             coronary artery bypass grafting.
             Note 2: Examples of a procedure to the carotid artery include:
                    (a)             carotid angioplasty;
                    (b)            carotid endarterectomy; and
                    (c)             carotid stenting.
                Note 3: Examples of an intravascular procedure involving the vessels of the head or neck include:
                    (a)             cosmetic vein sclerotherapy to the orbital adnexa, face, nose or sinuses;
                    (b)            transcatheter thyroid artery embolisation; and
                    (c)             transfemoral cerebral angiography.
(41)      inability to obtain appropriate clinical management for retinal vascular occlusion.
     10           Relationship to service
(1)          The existence in a person of any factor referred to in section 9, must be related to the relevant service rendered by the person.
(2)          The factors set out in subsections 9(21) to 9(41) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, retinal vascular occlusion where the person's retinal vascular occlusion was suffered or contracted before or during (but did not arise out of) the person's relevant service.
     11           Factors referring to an injury or disease covered by another Statement of Principles
In this Statement of Principles:
(1)          if a factor referred to in section 9 applies in relation to a person; and
(2)          that factor refers to an injury or disease in respect of which a Statement of Principles has been determined under subsection 196B(3) of the VEA;
then the factors in that Statement of Principles apply in accordance with the terms of that Statement of Principles as in force from time to time.

Schedule 1 - Dictionary
Note: See Section 6