The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected postoperative duodenal ulcer, right pterygium, and left spermatocele do not warrant evaluations in excess of their current ratings.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not demonstrate that the veteran's disabilities meet or approximate the criteria for a higher evaluation under applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative duodenal ulcer, Postoperative left spermatocele, Postoperative right pterygium
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0614689
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,242 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
The Veteran's postoperative duodenal ulcer with GERD and chronic pancreatitis was rated at 20 percent from April 6, 2004 to December 31, 2005. After that period, the rating remained at 20 percent.
- Denied
The Veteran's postoperative duodenal ulcer with GERD and chronic pancreatitis did not result in impairment of health manifested by anemia and weight loss or recurrent incapacitating episodes averaging 10 days or more in duration at least four or more times a year, thus the claim for increased rating was denied.
- Denied
The Veteran's postoperative duodenal ulcer with GERD and chronic pancreatitis has been manifested by abdominal pain, diarrhea, pyrosis, regurgitation, anemia at times, and weight loss at different times but does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation.
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