The Board has determined that the veteran's leishmaniasis does not more nearly approximate the criteria for a higher evaluation than those for the currently assigned 30 percent evaluation.
The deciding factor: There is no post-service medical evidence indicating that the veteran has liver damage due to leishmaniasis or significant symptoms due to leishmaniasis, and the clinical and X-ray evidence was suggestive of a fatty liver associated with the appellant's obesity rather than with leishmaniasis.
- Claimed conditions
- leishmaniasis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0017154
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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