Other conditions decisions — 2005

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient reasons and bases for the decision rendered, including inadequate notice of the basis for the apportionment claim and the amounts of the award provided to the veteran's other surviving dependents.

The Board has remanded the case to the RO for further development and readjudication, including verification of the veteran's service dates and obtaining any outstanding medical and personnel records.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including a VA dental examination and obtaining any relevant medical records.

The Board has ordered a remand for further development, including a Muscles examination to assess the veteran's current muscle injuries related to his service-connected gunshot wounds. The case will be reviewed again after this additional development.

The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for loss of vision, loss of hearing, and residuals of a scalp laceration. The evidence did not establish that these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by military service.

The Board has granted a 10% evaluation for the veteran's service-connected reactive airway disease, effective from the date of the grant of service connection.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for problematic bowel movements, memory loss, and stomach pains as due to undiagnosed illness or other qualifying disability. The claims were reopened on new evidence but the conditions are not considered compensable under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1117.

The appeal has been dismissed as the appellant withdrew their appeal before a decision was made.

The VA denied an increased evaluation for the veteran's post-operative residuals of a right femoral neck stress fracture, currently rated at 30 percent.

The Board has determined that the veteran has a current chronic skin disorder of the arms manifested by granuloma annulare, which is considered service-connected.

The veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of dental trauma for dental treatment purposes is denied as he does not have a compensable service-connected disability and did not apply within one year of his separation from service.

The Board has determined that the veteran's stroke/transient ischemic attack is causally related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus and grants the claim for service connection.

The veteran's pension benefits were terminated due to failure to provide an EVR for his income in 1999. The VA determined that retroactive payment of improved pension benefits for the period between March 1, 2000, and April 30, 2001 cannot be granted.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a skin rash and hair loss due to undiagnosed illness, as well as his claim for an increased rating for degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine. The veteran was not granted service connection for any of these conditions.

The Board has determined that the veteran's memory loss is service-connected, but his claim to reopen a Posner-Schlossman syndrome claim was denied due to lack of new and material evidence.

The VA has determined that the veteran's service-connected nephrolithiasis, right hydronephrosis, and urethrolithotomy is currently manifested by frequent attacks of colic with infection and impairment of kidney function. The current evaluation of 30 percent is deemed appropriate.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded due to scheduling issues for a Travel Board hearing at the RO. The case will be returned to the Board once this hearing has been conducted.

The Board found that the cause of the veteran's death was not related to service connection and denied the claim for service connection for the cause of death.

The veteran is seeking an increased rating for his service-connected status post fusion of L4-S1, which was previously rated as sacroiliac injury. The RO has indicated that a VA examination should be scheduled to assess the current severity of the disability and readjudicate the claim under both old and new criteria.

The VA denied increased ratings for patella tendonitis of the right and left knees, currently evaluated as 10 percent disabling.