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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 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and death from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Meaning of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease means one of a group of genetic disorders of myelin structure or axon function which results in chronic peripheral motor and sensory neuropathies.
Note: Clinical manifestations include progressive distal muscle weakness and atrophy starting in the feet and legs, gait disturbance and absent stretch reflexes.
(3)          While Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G60.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 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 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.