The Board has granted service connection for nonspecific urethritis but denied an increased rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim was well grounded and the RO failed to provide a compensable evaluation, leading to the grant of service connection with no assigned rating.
- Claimed conditions
- nonspecific urethritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- January 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0000719
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal has been dismissed due to his death. The claims for service connection and initial ratings for PTSD, IHD, urethritis, and pes planus are all dismissed.
- Denied
The Veteran's earlier effective date for the evaluation of urinary tract obstruction (also claimed as nonspecific urethritis and chronic prostatitis) is denied. The Board found that his disability did not meet or approximate the criteria for a higher rating prior to October 18, 2007.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that additional examinations are needed for the Veteran's service-connected nonspecific urethritis, erectile dysfunction, and endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysm and aortic/femoral artery bypass with scar due to incomplete medical records and lack of recent evaluations.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for nonspecific urethritis as the evidence did not show a current disability related to an in-service injury, event, or disease.
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