The Board has granted service connection for schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type and increased the disability evaluation for a scar on the right knee to 10 percent. The claim for an increased disability evaluation for bilateral pes planus remains pending.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that there is a causal relationship between in-service psychiatric symptoms and the current diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. For the scar on the right knee, the examination findings do not meet the criteria for a higher rating under any applicable diagnostic code.
- Claimed conditions
- schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, scar on the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 11, 2005
- Citation
- 0503774
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Denied
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