Other conditions decisions — 2004

The Board has denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death due to lack of evidence from the Vet Center regarding his treatment.

The Board has reopened the claim and granted service connection for arthritis, finding that new evidence supports a link between the veteran's current condition and his military service.

The veteran is seeking to establish service connection for a stomach disorder that he believes was caused or aggravated by his service-connected temporomandibular joint injury. The VA needs to provide the veteran with an examination and obtain medical opinions regarding whether his current stomach disorder is related to his service-connected condition.

The Board denied the veteran's claim of reopening his service connection for residuals of a stab wound and GSW to the abdomen, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted.

The Board has determined that further evidentiary development is necessary in this case and the veteran's claim of service connection for a right foot disorder. The RO should obtain VA medical records from the Alexandria VAMC and New Orleans VAMC, schedule the veteran for a VA examination to assess her current severity of the right foot disorder, and then readjudicate the claim.

The Board has granted a 20 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected post-operative tear of the medial meniscus, left knee, which is more than the current 10 percent rating. The decision also notes that there is no basis to assign a higher rating due to severe impairment.

The Board has granted the veteran's claim for an increased rating of 10 percent for thoracic spine myofascial pain syndrome, effective December 2001.

The Board has granted service connection for chondromalacia patellae of the left and right knees, assigning a 10% disability evaluation effective from January 9, 2002.

The veteran is seeking compensation benefits for obstructive uropathy as secondary to VA treatment, but the claim must be remanded due to inadequate examination and missing records.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased evaluations for duodenal ulcer and tonsillitis, post operative. The evidence did not show that the service-connected conditions were active or manifested by more than mild symptoms.

The Board found that the veteran's service-connected impaired vision of the left eye did not warrant an increased evaluation beyond the current 30 percent rating.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeal because he failed to specify a specific date for the alleged CUE and did not provide sufficient details or reasons to support his claim of CUE.

The veteran's claim of entitlement to special monthly pension is being remanded for further development, including a VA examination to assess the severity of his osteopenia.

The Board has determined that the appellant qualifies as the surviving spouse of the veteran for purposes of receiving VA death benefits due to continuous cohabitation from the date of marriage until the veteran's death.

The Board has determined that the veteran's preservice vertebral fracture aggravated during service, warranting service connection for residuals of the fracture.

The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for a TDIU is being remanded due to the inextricability of the CUE claim and the current appeal.

The veteran's claim for a waiver of recovery of a loan guaranty indebtedness is being remanded to the RO for scheduling a video conference hearing.

The Board has determined that the claim for service connection for the cause of death is not properly adjudicated due to a previous final denial and remands the case for further development.

The Board found no evidence of joint pain or fatigue due to an undiagnosed illness or service connection, and denied the veteran's claims.

The VA determined that the appellant's service-connected duodenal ulcer does not currently manifest by current symptoms, and thus, did not meet the schedular criteria for an increased (compensable) rating.