The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection of a right knee disability as secondary to his service-connected left knee chondromalacia and an initial increased rating for his service-connected left knee chondromalacia. The Board found that arthritis in the veteran's right knee was not proximately due to or the result of his service-connected left knee condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner stated that it is at least as likely as not that the veteran has a disability of the right knee that is due to the left knee injury, but provided no underlying analysis or rationale for this conclusion.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Chondromalacia, Right Knee Arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2005
- Citation
- 0503799
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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