The Board denied the veteran's claims for a compensable rating for left testicular atrophy and service connection for depressive disorder secondary to his service-connected left testicular atrophy, finding that there was no evidence of direct causation or aggravation.
The deciding factor: The examiner opined that the veteran's depression is not directly related to his service-connected left testicular atrophy due to lack of medical evidence linking infertility (the primary cause of his depression) to his in-service epididymitis or his current condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Testicular Atrophy, Depressive Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2008
- Citation
- 0835711
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