The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for a pulmonary disability and granted service connection based on evidence showing that his restrictive lung disease is at least as likely as not due to pneumonia in service.
The deciding factor: A VA physician provided an opinion linking the veteran's restrictive lung disease to pneumonia during military service, which raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary disability, restrictive lung disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 12, 2006
- Citation
- 0631696
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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