The Board denied service connection for liver damage as secondary to SLE and did not find factual ascertainability within the one-year period before November 5, 1992 for an earlier effective date of a 60 percent disability rating for SLE.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence of current liver damage or chronic liver disease. The veteran's entitlement to an increased rating for SLE is not factually ascertainable within the one-year period before November 5, 1992.
- Claimed conditions
- liver damage, chronic liver disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- July 5, 2005
- Citation
- 0518292
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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