The Board has determined that new and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for pulmonary tuberculosis, thus granting the appeal.
The deciding factor: Evidence from private physicians indicated the veteran may have been treated for tuberculosis in service, which is significant enough to consider together with other evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2002
- Citation
- 0217935
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, finding that his service-connected pulmonary tuberculosis was at least as likely as not a contributory cause of his death.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date than January 28, 2014 for service connection for pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal to restore a 100% rating for pulmonary tuberculosis with sleep apnea is dismissed as the requested rating was already in effect.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate VA examination, and the Veteran's claim for service connection for pulmonary tuberculosis and related respiratory conditions is now pending.
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