Va Rating For Hypertensive Retinopathy

Men are more affected than women in age groups less than 45 years old and women are more.

Va rating for hypertensive retinopathy. Six months after discontinuance of such treatment the appropriate disability rating will be determined by mandatory VA examination. Classification of Hypertensive Retinopathy. 6008 Detachment of retina. The proposed changes will.

The extent and severity of the retinopathy is generally represented on a scale of 1 to 4. The Veterans ocular hypertension hypertensive retinopathy with right eye glaucomatous optic neuropathy has been rated under Diagnostic Code 6099-6079. Mild signs of hypertensive retinopathy can be seen quite frequently in normal people 314 of adult individuals aged 40 years even without hypertension. As of December 1st 2020 the VA disability rate benefit amounts are as follows.

Veterans with hypertension can be assigned ratings ranging from 0 percent to 60 percent. One MET metabolic equivalent is the energy cost of standing quietly at rest and represents an oxygen uptake of 35 milliliters per kilogram of body weight per minute. The VA rates both eyes together so if a veteran is blind in one eye and has 2020 in the other they would probably only receive a 40 rating. As part of VAs ongoing revision of the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities VASRD or rating schedule VA proposes changes to 38 CFR 477-479 which pertain to the organs of special sense and disabilities and disease of the eye.

6009 Unhealed eye injury. 1 Update the medical terminology of certain eye conditions. It certainy can be claimed as secondary the HBP andor headaches-in this case it was claimed under DC 7101 which covered both the HBP and the retinopathy. The central visual acuity measurements go from 2020 to 5200 and the VA rates based on corrected vision if it can be corrected.

Under DC 7101 for hypertension with bilateral hypertensive. 20 percent disability rating. The VA awards disability compensation for each Eye condition that is service-connectedThe DoD will also rate service-connected Eye conditions as long as they also make the service member Unfit for DutyFor Reservists the Eye condition must have occurred in or resulted from an injury in the Line of Duty to qualify. Hypertensive retinopathy is commonly considered a diagnostic feature of a hypertensive emergency although it is not invariably present.

Anything worse than 5200 is considered blind. In the February 2012 rating decision the RO supported the 10 percent rating by explaining it was due to continuous medication. Hypertensive retinopathy is more common in African Americans and Chinese descent. This case shows how hypertensive retinopathy is rated.

When the level of METs at which dyspnea fatigue angina dizziness or syncope. This matter comes before the Board of Veterans Appeals Board on appeal from a January 2009 rating decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs VA Regional Office RO in St. The veteran currently has a 10 percent disability rating. In addition the incidence of blood pressure increases with age.

Importantly no eye conditions were removed from the rating schedule. The scale is called the KeithWagenerBarker. In 2018 VA made revisions to the general rating formula for diseases of the eye to include the following as well. Hypertensive retinopathy ranges from 2-17 in non-diabetic patients but the prevalence by demographic groups.

Diabetic retinopathy retinal dystrophy and post-chiasmal disorders. Or other therapeutic procedure. 10 percent disability rating. Evaluate cor pulmonale which is a form of secondary heart disease as part of the pulmonary condition that causes it.

6006 Retinopathy or maculopathy not otherwise specified 6007 Intraocular hemorrhage. 10-15 151 DATE On appeal from the Department of Veterans Affairs VA Regional Office RO in San Diego California THE ISSUE Entitlement to an increased rating for ocular hypertension hypertensive retinopathy with right eye glaucomatous optic neuropathy. 2 add medical conditions. 0 percent disability rating.