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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 pure red cell aplasia and death from pure red cell aplasia.
Meaning of pure red cell aplasia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pure red cell aplasia:
(a)          means complete or nearly complete cessation of red cell production in the bone marrow without effects on other haematopoietic cells and characterised by anaemia, reticulocytopaenia and absent or rare erythroid precursor cells in the bone marrow; and
(b)          excludes:
(i)            congenital Diamond-Blackfan anaemia;
(ii)         myelodysplastic syndrome; and
(iii)       paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria.
(3)          While pure red cell aplasia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code D60, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of pure red cell aplasia 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 pure red cell aplasia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pure red cell aplasia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's pure red cell aplasia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.