Kidney disease Board decisions

The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for kidney failure and heart disease as secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.

The Board has remanded the case for a revised dose estimate of ionizing radiation exposure and further development under VA regulations. The veteran's cause of death is being considered as potentially related to his service-connected condition, MDS.

The Board found no evidence of current bilateral hip disorder, kidney disorder, or back disorder. The right knee disorder was not shown to be related to the service-connected left knee disability.

The veteran's kidney disorder was not incurred in or aggravated by service. The Board denied the claim for service connection.

The Board finds that the veteran's kidney disability was incurred during his active duty for training, caused by urinary blockage in his bladder. The decision grants service connection for this condition.

The Board finds that the veteran's renal cell carcinoma, initially noted during service in 1995 as minimally suspicious for cancer, was incurred in service and grants service connection.

The Board found that kidney cancer was not incurred in or aggravated by the veteran's active duty service, nor may it be presumed to be incurred in or aggravated by such service. As a result, the claim for service connection is denied.

The Board has determined that additional development is needed to address the veteran's claims for service connection and non-service connected pension purposes, including obtaining relevant medical records and scheduling VA examinations.

The veteran's service-connected type II diabetes mellitus is presumed to have been incurred during his active service, and the Board has granted service connection for renal failure, retinopathy, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and peripheral neuropathy as secondary to this condition.

The Board found that the veteran's death was not caused by any service-connected disability, and denied both claims for service connection for the cause of death and DEA.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claims for service connection for hypertension and a kidney disability, to include as secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus. However, it denied his claim for a compensable rating for erectile dysfunction and deferred consideration of his petition to reopen his claim for service connection for a kidney disability until completion of further development.

The VA determined that the veteran's additional disability involving renal failure and heart disease was not caused by VA medical treatment with Lisinopril since the mid-1990s, as there is no competent medical evidence showing such a connection.

The Board denied increased disability ratings for left renal stones, tinea versicolor, and left knee disability.

The Board has denied service connection for hypertension, bilateral hearing loss, bilateral knee disability, and kidney disorder (manifested by renal failure) as these conditions are not shown to be related to service. Service connection is granted for a low back disability.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed conditions of pulmonary tuberculosis, hearing loss, kidney disease, poor vision, and asthma were not incurred or aggravated during service. The claims are denied.

The Board found that the veteran did not serve in Vietnam and thus could not establish exposure to Agent Orange. The cause of death, metastatic kidney cancer, was not service-connected as there is no evidence of its presence during service or for decades thereafter. Lung cancer, claimed by the appellant, also had no service connection.

The veteran's claims for increased ratings were denied. The service-connected conditions did not meet the criteria for higher disability evaluations under the applicable rating criteria.

The Board denied service connection for the veteran's claimed conditions, finding that there was no evidence linking them to his military service.

The veteran's claims for service connection for bladder cancer and renal cell cancer, both claimed as secondary to Agent Orange exposure, are being remanded due to the need for a VA examination.

The Board finds that the evidence does not support service connection for any of the claimed conditions, including a kidney disorder.