The Board has determined that the Veteran's right knee disability is not related to his service-connected left knee disability and therefore denied the claim.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence of a causal relationship between the Veteran's service-connected left knee disability and his current right knee disability, concluding that the right knee disability was not caused or aggravated by the left knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- status postoperative total right knee arthroplasty, right osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 10, 2009
- Citation
- 0913613
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