What can I claim secondary to thromboangiitis obliterans?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list thromboangiitis obliterans as a factor. If DVA has accepted your thromboangiitis obliterans, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionThromboangiitis obliterans
- Conditions it may open1
- 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 thromboangiitis obliterans, and another condition's SoP lists thromboangiitis obliterans 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 thromboangiitis obliterans 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.
Ischaemic heart disease
RH No. 27 of 2025 · BoP No. 28 of 2025
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (24): “having thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger disease) before the clinical onset of myocardial infarction” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open ischaemic heart disease
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions thromboangiitis obliterans does.
What DVA means by thromboangiitis obliterans
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.
Thromboangiitis obliterans, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, thromboangiitis obliterans means a nonatherosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory, occlusive vascular disease affecting the small and medium-sized arteries and veins.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(4) to 9(7) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, thromboangiitis obliterans where it was already present before or during service. If service caused thromboangiitis obliterans outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 28 of 2017 · BoP No. 29 of 2017 · 3 factors
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