The Board granted service connection for tuberculosis and a 10 percent rating for left pleuritis, effective May 25, 1994.
The deciding factor: The veteran's pleural tuberculosis was considered to have become active on February 25, 1994, and the VA medical expert concluded that he had primary tuberculosis manifesting as left pleuritis with effusion in 1949 which reactivated in 1994.
- Claimed conditions
- pleural tuberculosis, left pleuritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 17, 2002
- Citation
- 0203536
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