The Board found that the veteran's prostatitis was not incurred in service and denied his claim for service connection. The Board also found no new and material evidence to reopen his claim for retinitis pigmentosa.
The deciding factor: Service records do not show chronic prostatitis, only an acute episode during service which resolved without leaving a chronic disability.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic prostatitis, retinitis pigmentosa
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 29, 2003
- Citation
- 0308109
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa, finding no evidence of a nexus to active service.
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