Other conditions Board decisions

The Board granted service connection for schizoaffective disorder based on the credible accounts of a psychotic episode during active service.

The case is remanded for the veteran to be scheduled for a hearing at the RO before a Veterans Law Judge.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for right and left hand disorders as there was no evidence of a current disability.

The appeal is remanded for additional development, including determining the veteran's eligibility for adaptive equipment or an automobile and scheduling a travel board hearing.

The Board remands the matter for a travel board hearing as requested by the veteran.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for right leg thrombophlebitis as there was no medical evidence linking the condition to his military service.

The appeal is remanded to the RO for additional evidentiary development.

The veteran's service-connected endometriosis and pelvic adhesions, status post laparoscopy, lysis and left salpingectomy is productive of lesions involving the bowel confirmed by laparoscopy, pelvic pain, and bowel symptoms.

The veteran's claim for service connection for alcoholism was denied because it is a substance abuse disability and direct service connection is precluded by law.

The veteran was granted a non-compensable evaluation for his toenail disability and a 10 percent evaluation for recurring costochondritis.

The veteran's total lower extremity loss of use to include bowel and bladder, status post residuals of gunshot wound to the spinal cord was not shown to have been caused or aggravated by a service-connected disease or injury.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral foot disorder as there was no evidence of a foot condition during service or within 23 years after separation, and the current condition was not related to service.

The veteran's appeal to the Board became moot at the time of his death in October 2007, and the Board's February 2008 decision is vacated.

The appeal for service connection for myeloproliferative syndrome manifested by thrombocytosis and leukocytosis is being remanded to schedule a hearing.

The Board determined that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for residuals of a back injury.

The veteran withdrew his appeal seeking service connection for a left arm disability, claimed as secondary to right arm gunshot wound residuals. The Board dismissed the appeal due to the veteran's withdrawal.

The Board denied service connection for cancer of the larynx as there was no evidence that the veteran served in Vietnam, was exposed to herbicides, or that his condition is related to his military service.

The Board found that a timely notice of disagreement was filed with the January 16, 2004 RO decision denying an application for entitlement to service-connected disability benefits.

The Board found that the preponderance of evidence does not support a relationship between the veteran's lung condition and his military service, thus denying the claim.

The Board finds that the preponderance of the evidence is against the veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 50 percent for Alzheimer dementia.