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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 Cushing syndrome and death from Cushing syndrome.
Meaning of Cushing syndrome
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Cushing syndrome means an endocrine disorder resulting from an excess of endogenous or exogenous glucocorticoids.
            Note: Features of Cushing syndrome may include proximal muscle weakness, facial plethora, wasting of the extremities with increased fat in the abdomen (centripetal fat) and face ("moon facies"), wide (> 1 cm) purplish striae, bruising with no obvious trauma, supraclavicular fat pads and dorsocervical fat pad ("buffalo hump").
(3)          While Cushing syndrome attracts ICD‑10‑AM code E24.0, E24.2, E24.3, E24.8 or E24.9, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of Cushing syndrome 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 Cushing syndrome
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Cushing syndrome, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's Cushing syndrome.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.