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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 autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and death from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Meaning of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease:
(a)          means an autosomal dominant genetic disorder, which involves the development of multiple bilateral renal cysts and enlarged kidneys, associated with gradual deterioration of renal function, and may involve cysts in other organs such as the liver; and
(b)          excludes autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, medullary sponge kidney disease, medullary cystic kidney disease and acquired cystic disease of kidney.
(3)          While autosomal dominant polysystic kidney disease attracts ICD-10 -AM code Q61.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of autosomal dominant polysystic kidney 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 autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.