The Board has found that the veteran's right eye glaucoma is related to service, and therefore granted service connection for this condition. The left eye glaucoma is being remanded as it may be secondary to the right eye glaucoma.
The deciding factor: Service medical records show loss of vision in the right eye during service, which was later diagnosed as glaucoma. The examiner opined that the current visual field defect in the right eye is caused by glaucoma, and given the lack of other explanations for the vision loss, it is reasonable to conclude that the veteran's right eye glaucoma had its onset in service.
- Claimed conditions
- glaucoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 7, 2003
- Citation
- 0315052
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