The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's claim of service connection for a left eye disorder. The Board also found that the veteran's left eye disorders are related to an in-service injury, thus granting service connection.
The deciding factor: The March 1999 letter from the veteran's eye doctor provided medical evidence linking the veteran's left eye disorders to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye macular edema, cataract, left eye glaucoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2002
- Citation
- 0207600
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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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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a new VA opinion to address in-service symptoms and whether any non-refractive eye condition or superimposed disease or injury is present.
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