The Board has determined that the veteran's current nasal obstruction and nose bleeds are related to his service, including a nose bleed during service. As such, the claim for service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions provided by a single examiner have medically related current nasal problems to service, resolving all reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- nasal obstruction, epistaxis (nose bleeds)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0601650
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Decisions by this judge: 2,196 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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