The Board denied service connection for PVD of the upper and lower extremities, as well as CAD and bilateral hearing loss. The examiner found no direct link to service or any other condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a nexus between the claimed conditions and service.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) of the upper extremities, Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 17, 2008
- Citation
- 0831756
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for PVD of the upper extremities and peripheral neuropathy of the upper extremities, as well as hearing loss. The Veteran's tinnitus was granted.,Service connection for PVD of the bilateral upper extremities, peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities (to include as secondary to herbicide agent exposure), and hearing loss were denied.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's PVD, bilateral hip disability, and arthritis of the left knee were not incurred or caused by his military service. The disabilities are also not secondary to any service-connected conditions.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for service connection of PVD of the lower extremities as secondary to Type II diabetes mellitus has been withdrawn.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case to obtain a VA medical opinion regarding the nature and etiology of any current PVD of the lower extremities, including whether it is more likely than not that the veteran's PVD preexisted service or was aggravated during service. The examiner should also provide an opinion on whether the veteran's PVD is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected CAD and/or hypertension.
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