The Board finds that the preponderance of the evidence is against granting an increased rating for the veteran's service-connected pulmonary sarcoidosis under either potentially applicable diagnostic code. The veteran has not been found to have cor pulmonale, sarcoid-related heart disease or progressive pulmonary disease so as to warrant a 100 percent rating under DC 6846.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support the presence of cor pulmonale, sarcoid-related heart disease or progressive pulmonary disease that would warrant a 100 percent rating under DC 6846. The veteran's symptoms have been consistently treated by the use of bronchodilators without requiring systemic corticosteroids.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary sarcoidosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 25, 2006
- Citation
- 0626618
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