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The Heart

For your heart diseases, attacks, implanted machines, and irregular heartbeats.

GENERAL PYRAMIDING NOTES:

  • The Veteran can only receive ONE evaluation for conditions that fall under the basically rated heart condition schedule!

  • The Veteran can only receive ONE evaluation for conditions that involves irregular heartbeats.

    • Examples: Arrhythmia, atrioventricular block, or tachycardia.

  • In the event

Basically Rated Heart Conditions

For the Veteran to get an accurate rating it is CRITICAL that the physician completing the DBQ or the C&P exam conducts a metabolic equivalent of task (MET) test.

  • Coronary bypass surgery;

  • 7001 Endocarditis;

  • Heart attack (Myocardial infarction);

  • 7002 Pericarditis;

  • 7000 Rheumatic heart disease;

  • 7000 Valvular heart disease.

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