The veteran is not shown to have an acquired psychiatric disorder that is proximately due to or the result of service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: VA examiner concluded that the veteran's psychiatric condition was not related to his service-connected skin condition.
- Claimed conditions
- an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2005
- Citation
- 0502567
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Decisions by this judge: 1,599 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current psychiatric disability, including PTSD, and therefore cannot establish service connection for an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to lack of recent medical records. The Veteran's claims for service connection are pending and will be reconsidered after obtaining updated treatment records.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran does not have an innocently acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, due to disease or injury incurred in service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and VA treatment records. If service connection is granted for Crohn's disease/colitis, the Veteran should be advised of the need to submit evidence supporting a secondary service connection theory.
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