The Board has determined that the veteran's thigh disability is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected residuals of rheumatic fever, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The examiner found that the veteran's thigh disability is as least as likely as not due to his service-connected residuals of rheumatic fever.
- Claimed conditions
- thigh disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 8, 2004
- Citation
- 0424688
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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
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The Veteran's claim for service connection for diabetes mellitus has been reopened and is granted. The claim for service connection for a thigh disability remains denied, as new evidence does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim. Service connection for allergic rhinitis (claimed as an ear, nose, and throat disability) is denied.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for tinnitus as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral hearing loss. The remaining issues of entitlement to initial compensable ratings for various disabilities and service connection for other conditions remain on appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate VCAA notice and will provide a new letter addressing service-connected conditions at the time of the Veteran's death, as well as conditions not yet service-connected.
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