What can I claim secondary to opisthorchiasis?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list opisthorchiasis as a factor. If DVA has accepted your opisthorchiasis, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionOpisthorchiasis
- Conditions it may open1
- SourceRMA SoPs
- Chart Review$600 + GST
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 opisthorchiasis, and another condition's SoP lists opisthorchiasis 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 opisthorchiasis 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.
Gallstone disease (cholelithiasis)
RH No. 69 of 2025 · BoP No. 70 of 2025
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (5): “having one of the following parasitic diseases of the biliary tract at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening: (a) ascariasis; (b) clonorchiasis; (c) dicrocoeliasis; (d) fascioliasis; (e) opisthorchiasis; (f) trypanosomiasis” [onset and worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (5): “having one of the following parasitic diseases of the biliary tract at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening: (a) ascariasis; (b) clonorchiasis; (c) fascioliasis; (d) opisthorchiasis” [onset and worsening]
Other accepted conditions that also open gallstone disease (cholelithiasis)
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions opisthorchiasis does.
What DVA means by opisthorchiasis
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.
Opisthorchiasis, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, opisthorchiasis means an infestation of the biliary system by the trematodes (parasitic flatworms) Opisthorchis felineus or Opisthorchis viverrini.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(3) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, opisthorchiasis where it was already present before or during service. If service caused opisthorchiasis outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 21 of 2025 · BoP No. 22 of 2025 · 3 factors
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