What can I claim secondary to acute pancreatitis?
3 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list acute pancreatitis as a factor. If DVA has accepted your acute pancreatitis, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionAcute pancreatitis
- Conditions it may open3
- SourceRMA SoPs
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How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your acute pancreatitis, and another condition's SoP lists acute pancreatitis as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list acute pancreatitis as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Chronic pancreatitis
RH No. 64 of 2020 · BoP No. 65 of 2020
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (8): “having an episode of acute pancreatitis before the clinical onset of chronic pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (8): “having an episode of acute pancreatitis before the clinical onset of chronic pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
RH No. 103 of 2021 · BoP No. 104 of 2021
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (6): “having acute pancreatitis at least 2 years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the pancreas” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Myocarditis
RH No. 17 of 2024 · BoP No. 18 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (9): “having acute pancreatitis at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening” [onset and worsening]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open chronic pancreatitis
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions acute pancreatitis does.
What DVA means by acute pancreatitis
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Acute pancreatitis, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, acute pancreatitis means an acute inflammatory condition due to auto-digestion of pancreatic tissue by its own enzymes.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(26) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, acute pancreatitis where it was already present before or during service. If service caused acute pancreatitis outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 5 of 2020 · BoP No. 6 of 2020 · 26 factors
What could support a claim for acute pancreatitis?
The Statement of Principles for acute pancreatitis names 2 other conditions among its own factors. If any of these is already accepted on your file, it may be the factor that carries a acute pancreatitis claim — quoted here from the instrument.
Cholelithiasis
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (3): “having cholelithiasis at the time of the clinical onset of acute pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (3): “having cholelithiasis at the time of the clinical onset of acute pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Diabetes mellitus
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (14): “having diabetes mellitus at the time of the clinical onset of acute pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (14): “having diabetes mellitus at the time of the clinical onset of acute pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
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