Less than criteria for 100% but with weight loss and anemia productive of severe impairment of health or severely incapacitating exacerbations occurring 4 or more times a year or a lesser number over prolonged periods With constitutional manifestations associated with active joint involvement, totally incapacitating This 20 percent rating or the 10 percent rating, when applicable, will be assigned once only to cover disability at all sites of previously active infection with a future ending date in the case of the 20 percent rating.ĥ001 Bones and joints, tuberculosis of, active or inactive:ĥ002 Multi-joint arthritis (except post-traumatic and gout), 2 or more joints, as an active process: To qualify for the 10 percent rating, 2 or more episodes following the initial infection are required. The prerequisite for this historical rating is an established recurrent osteomyelitis. Note (2): The 20 percent rating on the basis of activity within the past 5 years is not assignable following the initial infection of active osteomyelitis with no subsequent reactivation.

A rating for osteomyelitis will not be applied following cure by removal or radical resection of the affected bone. The 60 percent rating, as it is based on constitutional symptoms, is not subject to the amputation rule. This 10 percent rating and the other partial ratings of 30 percent or less are to be combined with ratings for ankylosis, limited motion, nonunion or malunion, shortening, etc., subject, of course, to the amputation rule. Note (1): A rating of 10 percent, as an exception to the amputation rule, is to be assigned in any case of active osteomyelitis where the amputation rating for the affected part is no percent. Inactive, following repeated episodes, without evidence of active infection in past 5 years With discharging sinus or other evidence of active infection within the past 5 years With definite involucrum or sequestrum, with or without discharging sinus

Of the pelvis, vertebrae, or extending into major joints, or with multiple localization or with long history of intractability and debility, anemia, amyloid liver changes, or other continuous constitutional symptomsįrequent episodes, with constitutional symptoms 5000 Osteomyelitis, acute, subacute, or chronic:

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