The Board has determined that the veteran is entitled to compensation for sterility under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 due to his service-connected prostate surgery, and also finds new and material evidence to reopen his claim of secondary service connection for an organic personality syndrome with explosive personality disorder.
The deciding factor: The veteran's current psychiatric issues are found to be related to his service-connected otitis media and not a result of the original service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Sterility, Organic Personality Syndrome with Explosive Personality Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 23, 2000
- Citation
- 0004603
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- Denied
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