The Board denied an increased disability rating for the service-connected toxoplasmosis and a claim for an earlier effective date of service connection for toxoplasmosis. The case is remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The Board failed to obtain all necessary VA treatment records from April 1969 to December 2002, which could have provided more information about the Veteran's condition and its impact on his disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- toxoplasmosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 9, 2009
- Citation
- 0933787
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome (including Epstein-Barr disease), brain disorder manifested by atrophy, cognitive impairment, memory loss, executive dysfunction, poor writing, and poor motor skills, pericarditis, toxoplasmosis, and hypertension. The veteran's claims were not based on exposure to ionizing radiation.
- Granted
The veteran's claim for service connection for toxoplasmosis was pending and eventually granted on April 9, 1969. The appellant is seeking an earlier effective date.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for reopening his service connection claim and for a higher rating for diabetes mellitus with background diabetic retinopathy, right eye. The decision found that new evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim and that the disability does not require insulin or regulation of activities.
- Denied
The Board has denied the veteran's claims of service connection for sinusitis and toxoplasmosis, finding that there is no current disability or evidence linking these conditions to his military service.
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