The Board granted service connection for small-fiber neuropathic disease and CIDP, associated with the veteran's in-service exposure to herbicides. The claim for an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss was denied. Service connection for PTSD was granted effective from February 1, 1996.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established a link between the veteran's neuropathy and his service-connected PTSD, which is presumed due to herbicide exposure in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- small-fiber neuropathic disease, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0640059
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