The Board has found that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for a genitourinary system disorder, but the preponderance of the evidence is against the claim as there is no competent medical evidence establishing a causal relationship between the inservice diagnosis of nonspecific urethritis and the current kidney stone and ureterolithiasis.
The deciding factor: The post-service diagnoses of kidney stone and ureterolithiasis are not shown to be related to the inservice finding of nonspecific urethritis, and no medical professional has provided such a nexus.
- Claimed conditions
- genitourinary system disorder, kidney stone, ureterolithiasis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2004
- Citation
- 0400247
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- Denied
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- Granted
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