Social Security Disability Benefits are paid for congenital heart disease. Congenital heart disease is a problem with your heart structure and function because of the abnormal heart development before you were born.

Some congenital heart diseases can be treated with medication while others will require surgery. Congenital heart disease is divided into two categories. The first is cyanotic which is blue discoloration caused by the lack of oxygen. Examples include a hypo-plastic heart or or a trans-position of the great vessels.

The second is non-cyanotic. Examples include atrial septal defect or aortic pulmonic stenosis.

Heart diseases can also be part of various genetic and chromosomal syndromes such as Marfan’s syndrome.

The Social Security Administration uses Listing 4.06 to evaluate symptomatic congenital heart disease. You show the results of specific medical testing and meet very stringent medical findings to qualify for listing.

More often than not, Social Security disability benefits for congenital heart disease will be awarded based on vocational criteria. If you feel you need help with your claim, please do not hesitate to contact experienced Social Security lawyers Cavey & Barrett.

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Do you have ischemic heart disease? If so, you may be entitled to Social Security disability benefits.

Ischemic heart disease or myocardial ischemia is characterized by reduced blood supply to your heart muscle usually because of coronary artery disease. Symptoms can include chest pain on exertion and decreased exercise tolerance for it unstable ischemic heart disease is characterized by chest pain or other symptoms at rest.

Diagnosis is made with an electrocardiogram, blood tests, cardiac stress testing, and coronary angiogram.

Listing 4.0 for ischemic heart disease is a very medically specific listing that sets forth extensive medical criteria that you must exhibit by medical testing.

If you don’t meet this exacting medical criteria, it is helpful to have your doctor complete a cardiac residual functional capacity form that outlines your exertional and non exertional impairments so that you can establish your entitlement to Social Security disability benefits based on vocational factors.

Your attorney, or Nancy Cavey who practices Social Security disability attorney in the Tampa Bay area, can supply you with the appropriate cardiac residual functional capacity form.

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Congestive heart failure may be the basis for Social Security disability claim.

Unfortunately, heart failure is a life-threatening condition because the heart can’t pump enough blood to the rest of your body. As a result, blood may back up in other areas of your body including your liver, gastrointestinal tract, and extremities. It can lead to failure of other organs because your organs don’t get enough oxygen. This can damage them and reduces their ability to function properly.

The most common causes of heart failure or hypertension and coronary artery disease. The disease is almost always chronic and long term.

Listing 4. Congestive Heart failure is a medically intensive listing. By that I mean, there are very specific physical and diagnostic findings that must be met to establish this listing. I would highly recomend you contact an experienced Social Security Disability Lawyer such as Nancy Cavey to help you through the claims process.

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Hypertensive cardiovascular disease is a combination of high blood pressure and clogged arteries. Not a good combination!

As most cardiac listings, it is a medically intense and complicated listing because hypertensive cardiovascular disease also involves other body systems that have their own listings. If you’ve been diagnosed with hypertensive cardiovascular disease, please file a Social Security disability claim.

Because of the complexity of this listing, I do believe that you need assistance in selecting the right residual functional capacity forms for your physician to fill out that adequately and thoroughly address your medical problems. Please feel free to contact experienced Security Disability Lawyers Cavey & Barrett.

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You are entitled to Social Security disability benefits for valvular heart disease will depend, in great measure on the severity of your heart disease, the operative procedures you’ve undergone, and the results that you have from your surgery.

There is an awesome article with diagrams and I have found that explains blood through your heart. There are four valves that control the blood flow through the four chambers of the heart. Heart disease can affect your heart valves two ways. You can have stenosis which is a narrowing of the valve. You can think of it like drainpipes that have a build up on the inside of the pipe. The second way in heart disease can affect your valves is regurgitation. That is the failure of a one way balance so that the blood flows back in the wrong direction. The article and diagram can be found here.

Step 1 Blood comes into the heart through two large veins; one from the upper part of the body and one from the lower part. The first chamber it enters in the right side of the heart is the right atrium.	Step 2 Then it crosses the tricuspid valve (the valve between the right atrium and right ventricle) and flows into the right ventricle. Right and left are reversed in these pictures because we are looking at the front of the heart.	Step 3 The right ventricle contracts and pressure increases to the point where the pulmonic valve opens.	Step 4 From the right ventricle, the blood is pumped into the lungs via the pulmonary arteries. These are the only arteries in the body that carry deoxygenated blood.
Step 5 The pulmonary arteries continue to branch and become smaller in diameter as they infiltrate the lung tissue, eventually forming a capillary network around an alveolus.	Step 6 The alveolus is an air sac that communicates with the outside to allow carbon dioxide to be removed from the blood and oxygen to enter across a thin tissue membrane.	Step 7 Once oxygenated blood has returned to the left side of the heart from the lungs, the left ventricle contracts and pumps the oxygen-rich blood to peripheral organs.	Step 8 Inside an organ, the blood vessel has a different structure and is called an arteriole. The arterioles infiltrate most organs, eventually forming a capillary network

The Social Security Administration evaluates valvular heart disease or other stenotic defects, including valvular regurgitation, under Listing of Impairments 4.07. You must have documented appropriate imaging techniques or cardiac catheterization.

If you don’t meet the listing, it is important to develop your exertional and non- exertional limitations. Medications can effect the severity of valvular heart disease and you may have significant limitations due to your symptoms. Make sure you have documented those problems so you can be successful in your claim for Social Security disability benefits based on valvular heart disease.

Nancy Cavey, a Tampa Bay Social Security disability lawyer, will make sure that your physician completes a cardiac functional residual capacity form in support of your Social Security claim. She can be contacted by clicking here or at 727.894.3188.

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