The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for service connection for anisoscoria of the right pupil and psychiatric disability is well grounded, but not well grounded for service connection for anisoscoria of the right pupil. The veteran's service-connected disabilities have caused or aggravated his psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that the veteran suffers from a psychiatric disability associated with his service-connected disabilities, including treatment and pain associated with these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- anisoscoria of the right pupil, psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- January 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0001470
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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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