Overview and objective
A time-based presumption of disability for intestinal transplant recipients.
Exact text
5.11 Small intestine transplantation. Consider under a disability for 1 year following the date of transplantation. Thereafter, evaluate the residual impairments under the criteria for the affected body system.
Checklist of elements
- Proof of transplant and date.
- Automatic disability for one year; then evaluate residual impairments (often nutrition, infection, rejection, renal).
Tips & recommended evidence
- Surgical and transplant notes, endoscopy surveillance reports, immunosuppression records.
- Complications: rejection, anastomotic leaks, infections; TPN weaning progress.
Under Listing 5.11, a Social Security Disability Lawyer can help secure transplant operative reports, surgical records, discharge summaries, and immunosuppression documentation to confirm the transplant date and establish the automatic one-year period of disability. These records are essential to properly apply SSA’s time-based presumption and ensure the claimant is correctly evaluated under the listing. After the one-year period, documentation of complications such as rejection episodes, infections, anastomotic issues, renal impairment, and ongoing nutritional limitations becomes critical to assessing residual functional capacity and determining whether the impairment continues to meet or medically equal a listing without vocational analysis.