The Board granted a 40 percent disability evaluation for the veteran's right lower extremity disorder, effective from January 12, 1998. The decision affirmed that separate evaluations for varicose veins and post-phlebitic changes could not be rendered as there was no medical differentiation made between the symptoms of each disorder.
The deciding factor: The specific etiology of the veteran's symptoms involving his right lower extremity could not be differentiated between those caused by his varicose veins and those caused by his chronic post-phlebitic changes.
- Claimed conditions
- varicose veins, post-phlebitic changes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 10, 2002
- Citation
- 0200367
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for a neck condition, plantar fasciitis, left ankle condition, and varicose veins to ensure that VA's duty to assist is followed and that the Veteran is afforded every possible consideration.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for an increased rating for varicose veins and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
- Dismissed
The appeals regarding the deferred claims for service connection for varicose veins and total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) are dismissed as there was no final adjudicative determination to which a Notice of Disagreement could be filed.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for multiple conditions, but granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
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