Ultimately I made do with a work around - the class used as the ItemSource had a Selected property added which was automatically updated to sync with changes to the list. Then I added a Visiblity property (I could have used a converter as well) to converted the boolean selected to a visibility value, which was used to control the visual appearance of controls in a column of the selected item in the list.
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