The Board denied the veteran's claim for compensation benefits for impotency and peripheral vascular disease as secondary to VA back surgery, finding that there was no additional chronic disability including impotency and periperal vascular disease with etiologic link to back surgery at a VA facility.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish an etiological link between the veteran's impotency and peripheral vascular disease and his back surgery at a VA facility.
- Claimed conditions
- essential hypertension, residuals of mouth injury including dental trauma, back injury
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 6, 2000
- Citation
- 0031888
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal for service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease and back injury, left lower sciatica, and right lower sciatica was dismissed as the appeals were not timely filed.
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