VA Diagnostic Code 6316Brucellosis

As active disease

As active disease

As active disease

As active disease

Marked mental changes, moist dermatitis, inability to retain adequate nourishment, exhaustion, and cachexia

With all of the symptoms listed below, plus mental symptoms and impaired bodily vigor

With stomatitis, diarrhea, and symmetrical dermatitis

With stomatitis, or achlorhydria, or diarrhea

Confirmed diagnosis with nonspecific symptoms such as: decreased appetite, weight loss, abdominal discomfort, weakness, inability to concentrate and irritability

With congestive heart failure, anasarca, or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

With cardiomegaly, or; with peripheral neuropathy with footdrop or atrophy of thigh or calf muscles

With peripheral neuropathy with absent knee or ankle jerks and loss of sensation, or; with symptoms such as weakness, fatigue, anorexia, dizziness, heaviness and stiffness of legs, headache or sleep disturbance

Marked mental changes, moist dermatitis, inability to retain adequate nourishment, exhaustion, and cachexia

With all of the symptoms listed below, plus mental symptoms and impaired bodily vigor

With stomatitis, diarrhea, and symmetrical dermatitis

With stomatitis, or achlorhydria, or diarrhea

Confirmed diagnosis with nonspecific symptoms such as: decreased appetite, weight loss, abdominal discomfort, weakness, inability to concentrate and irritability

As active disease

As acute or asymptomatic chronic disease

Not to be combined with ratings under DC 7809 Acute, with frequent exacerbations, producing severe impairment of health

Exacerbations lasting a week or more, 2 or 3 times per year

Exacerbations once or twice a year or symptomatic during the past 2 years

AIDS with recurrent opportunistic infections (see Note 3) or with secondary diseases afflicting multiple body systems; HIV-related illness with debility and progressive weight loss

Refractory constitutional symptoms, diarrhea, and pathological weight loss; or minimum rating following development of AIDS-related opportunistic infection or neoplasm

Recurrent constitutional symptoms, intermittent diarrhea, and use of approved medication(s); or minimum rating with T4 cell count less than 200

Following development of HIV-related constitutional symptoms; T4 cell count between 200 and 500; use of approved medication(s); or with evidence of depression or memory loss with employment limitations

Asymptomatic, following initial diagnosis of HIV infection, with or without lymphadenopathy or decreased T4 cell count

Which are nearly constant and so severe as to restrict routine daily activities almost completely and which may occasionally preclude self-care

Which are nearly constant and restrict routine daily activities to less than 50 percent of the pre-illness level; or which wax and wane, resulting in periods of incapacitation of at least six weeks total duration per year

Which are nearly constant and restrict routine daily activities from 50 to 75 percent of the pre-illness level; or which wax and wane, resulting in periods of incapacitation of at least four but less than six weeks total duration per year

Which are nearly constant and restrict routine daily activities by less than 25 percent of the pre-illness level; or which wax and wane, resulting in periods of incapacitation of at least two but less than four weeks total duration per year

Which wax and wane but result in periods of incapacitation of at least one but less than two weeks total duration per year; or symptoms controlled by continuous medication