The Board has granted a 30 percent disability rating for the service-connected asthmatic allergic bronchitis, effective from the date of separation from active military service (April 1995).
The deciding factor: The veteran's asthma is currently productive of at least daily inhalational or oral bronchodilator therapy, meeting the criteria for a 30 percent rating under the revised VA schedular criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- asthmatic allergic bronchitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 24, 2000
- Citation
- 0004865
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's asthmatic allergic bronchitis has required daily inhalational or oral bronchodilator therapy, meeting the criteria for a 60 percent disability rating. Her sinusitis is not rated separately as it does not meet the criteria for chronic frontal sinusitis with involvement of two or more adjacent cranial nerves.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an increased disability rating for her service-connected asthmatic allergic bronchitis is being remanded due to the need for updated VA examinations and treatment records.
- Denied
The Board found that the veteran's asthma preexisted his service and was not aggravated by it, thus denying the claim for service connection.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to the need for additional medical examination and consideration of the veteran's claim.
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