What can I claim secondary to chronic pancreatitis?
2 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list chronic pancreatitis as a factor. If DVA has accepted your chronic pancreatitis, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionChronic pancreatitis
- Conditions it may open2
- 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 chronic pancreatitis, and another condition's SoP lists chronic 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 chronic 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.
Malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
RH No. 103 of 2021 · BoP No. 104 of 2021
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (5): “having chronic pancreatitis for at least 2 years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the pancreas” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (5): “having chronic pancreatitis for at least 5 years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the pancreas” [clinical onset]
Osteonecrosis
RH No. 13 of 2020 · BoP No. 14 of 2020
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (12): “having acute or chronic pancreatitis at the time of the clinical onset of osteonecrosis” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions chronic pancreatitis does.
What DVA means by chronic 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.
Chronic pancreatitis, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic pancreatitis means a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas resulting in irreversible morphological change with parenchymal damage and fibrosis of the organ.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(10) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, chronic pancreatitis where it was already present before or during service. If service caused chronic pancreatitis outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 64 of 2020 · BoP No. 65 of 2020 · 9 factors
What could support a claim for chronic pancreatitis?
The Statement of Principles for chronic 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 chronic pancreatitis claim — quoted here from the instrument.
Cholelithiasis
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (5): “having cholelithiasis at the time of the clinical onset of chronic pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (5): “having cholelithiasis at the time of the clinical onset of chronic pancreatitis” [clinical onset]
Acute pancreatitis
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]
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