The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected right epididymitis does not warrant a rating higher than 10 percent, as it has primarily been manifested by intermittent pain and swelling in the right testicle area without recurrent symptomatic infection requiring drainage or frequent hospitalization.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show recurrent symptomatic infection requiring drainage/frequent hospitalization (greater than two times per year), and thus the criteria for a higher 30 percent rating were not met.
- Claimed conditions
- right epididymitis, chronic right epididymitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0303267
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 685 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied entitlement to an evaluation in excess of 10 percent for right epididymitis and a compensable evaluation for right ear hearing loss, but remanded the claims for a rating in excess of 10 percent for tinnitus and service connection for hypertension.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted service connection for residuals of an injury of the right leg and thigh, including hip, on a secondary basis, and for right epididymitis on a direct basis.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's appeal for specially adapted housing and special home adaptation grant was denied as none of his service-connected disabilities meet the criteria for such benefits. The appeal for an allowance for an automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment only was also denied.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for right epididymitis, headaches, pseudofolliculitis barbae, and a respiratory condition due to the lack of current diagnoses and failure to report for VA examinations.
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