a. These listings are only examples of common cardiovascular disorders that we consider
severe enough to result in marked and severe functional limitations. If your severe
impairment(s) does not meet the criteria of any of these listings, we must also consider
whether you have an impairment(s) that satisfies the criteria of a listing in another
body system.
b. If you have a severe medically determinable impairment(s) that does not meet a
listing, we will determine whether your impairment(s) medically equals a listing.
(See §416.926.) If you have a severe impairment(s) that does not meet or medically
equal the criteria of a listing, we will consider whether it functionally equals the
listings. (See §416.926a.) When we decide whether you continue to be disabled, we
use the rules in §416.994a.
104.01 Category of Impairments, Cardiovascular System
104.02 Chronic heart failure while on a regimen of prescribed treatment, with symptoms and signs described in
104.00C2, and with one of the following:
A. Persistent tachycardia at rest (see Table I);
OR
B. Persistent tachypnea at rest (see Table II) or markedly decreased exercise tolerance
(see 104.00C2b);
OR
C. Growth disturbance with:
1. An involuntary weight loss or failure to gain weight at an appropriate rate for
age, resulting in a fall of 15 percentiles from an established growth curve (on current
NCHS/CDC growth chart) which is currently present (see 104.00A3f) and has persisted
for 2 months or longer; or
2. An involuntary weight loss or failure to gain weight at an appropriate rate for
age, resulting in a fall to below the third percentile from an established growth
curve (on current NCHS/CDC growth chart) which is currently present (see 104.00A3f)
and has persisted for 2 months or longer.
Table I--Tachycardia at Rest
Age
|
Apical heart rate (beats per minute)
|
Under 1 yr
|
150
|
1 through 3 yrs
|
130
|
4 through 9 yrs
|
120
|
10 through 15 yrs
|
110
|
Over 15 yrs
|
100
|
Table II--Tachypnea at Rest
Age
|
Respiratory rate over (per minute)
|
Under 1 yr
|
40
|
1 through 5 yrs
|
35
|
6 through 9 yrs
|
30
|
Over 9 yrs
|
25
|
104.05 Recurrent arrhythmias, not related to reversible causes such as electrolyte abnormalities or digitalis glycoside
or antiarrhythmic drug toxicity, resulting in uncontrolled (see 104.00A3g), recurrent
(see 104.00A3c) episodes of cardiac syncope or near syncope (see 104.00E3b), despite
prescribed treatment (see 104.00B3 if there is no prescribed treatment), and documented
by resting or ambulatory (Holter) electrocardiography, or by other appropriate medically
acceptable testing, coincident with the occurrence of syncope or near syncope (see
104.00E3c).
104.06 Congenital heart disease, documented by appropriate medically acceptable imaging (see 104.00A3d) or cardiac catheterization, with one of the following:
A. Cyanotic heart disease, with persistent, chronic hypoxemia as manifested by:
1. Hematocrit of 55 percent or greater on two evaluations 3 months or more apart within
a consecutive 12-month period (see 104.00A3e); or
2. Arterial O2 saturation of less than 90 percent in room air, or resting arterial PO2 of 60 Torr or less; or
3. Hypercyanotic spells, syncope, characteristic squatting, or other incapacitating
symptoms directly related to documented cyanotic heart disease; or
4. Exercise intolerance with increased hypoxemia on exertion.
OR
B. Secondary pulmonary vascular obstructive disease with pulmonary arterial systolic
pressure elevated to at least 70 percent of the systemic arterial systolic pressure.
OR
C. Symptomatic acyanotic heart disease, with ventricular dysfunction interfering very
seriously with the ability to independently initiate, sustain, or complete activities.
OR
D. For infants under 12 months of age at the time of filing, with life-threatening
congenital heart impairment that will require or already has required surgical treatment
in the first year of life, and the impairment is expected to be disabling (because
of residual impairment following surgery, or the recovery time required, or both)
until the attainment of at least 1 year of age, consider the infant to be under disability
until the attainment of at least age 1; thereafter, evaluate impairment severity with
reference to the appropriate listing.
104.09 Heart transplant. Consider under a disability for 1 year following surgery; thereafter, evaluate residual
impairment under the appropriate listing.
104.13 Rheumatic heart disease, with persistence of rheumatic fever activity manifested by significant murmurs(s),
cardiac enlargement or ventricular dysfunction (see 104.00C2a), and other associated abnormal laboratory findings; for example, an elevated
sedimentation rate or ECG findings, for 6 months or more in a consecutive 12-month
period (see 104.00A3e). Consider under a disability for 18 months from the established
onset of impairment, then evaluate any residual impairment(s).