Cardio

[Berta]

These links might help someone with a IHD claim.

If I had not gotten a medical acronym list years ago (that was very limited and pre -internet)I would not have won my claims.

The best one I found was in a book at a yard sale that a nurse had =with lots of medical texts for sale.

The internet has certainly altered the lives of any VA claimant since those days.

http://www.nfchcm.com/cardiac_acronyms.htm

http://www.medhelp.org/tags/health_page/280/Heart/Common-Heart-Related-Acronyms?hp_id=2

If the word ischemia regarding the heart appears in any new AO presumptive claim,the VA will seek the results of any ECHO and/or METS tests and can rate ,in many cases, with these results.

Still some of our IHD claims might be more involved than that.

I hope not but not all heart disease is ischemic -but most heart disease is.

[stillhere]

Berta I think we will see each and every RO doing what they want in regard to these claims and leave veterans twisting in the wind. I hope not but there is the opportunity here for this confusing type condition to be manipulated to many extremes.

I would recommend any heart patient to point blank ask their cardio doc are my symptoms Ischemic? If not why? And get it in writing!

[Berta]

You are absolutely right as to asking the doc if the cardio problem is or isn't ischemic in nature.

and right about the 'manipulation' factor-in my opinion.

I just don't trust any IBM system or VA rater to get all of these IHD claims right the first time.