The Board has granted service connection for residuals of shrapnel wounds of the right knee and hypertension, assigning a 10% disability rating.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner determined that the veteran's current right knee scars are related to an injury in service, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of shrapnel wounds of the right knee, cardiovascular disorder including hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 22, 2004
- Citation
- 0430979
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for hypertension, but denied the remaining claims. The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability and right knee disability are not found to be related to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran seeks service connection for diabetes mellitus and a cardiovascular disorder including hypertension, which he attributes to exposure to herbicides during his service in Korea. The case is remanded due to the need for further development of unit records and a VA examination.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal has been withdrawn, and the case is dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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