The veteran is granted restoration of a 10 percent evaluation for periarteritis nodosa with panuveitis and a separate 10 percent rating for bilateral panuveitis. The claim for a higher rating for cutaneous vasculitis, previously diagnosed as periarteritis nodosa, is denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran's disabilities are sufficiently distinct in symptomatology to warrant considering them separately, with the current evidence not showing material improvement in his periarteritis nodosa disability and no more than two flare-ups per year for cutaneous vasculitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Cutaneous Vasculitis, Periarteritis Nodosa
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0620341
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