The Board has granted a compensable rating (30%) for the service-connected respiratory disorder, histoplasmosis, based on chronic pulmonary mycosis with occasional productive cough.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's histoplasmosis is symptomatic and causes occasional productive cough, meeting the criteria for a 30% disability rating under DC 6834.
- Claimed conditions
- histoplasmosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 2, 2009
- Citation
- 0945865
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's histoplasmosis with emphysema is rated at a 30 percent rating, effective from the date of the decision.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claims of service connection for histoplasmosis, PTSD and depressive disorder are dismissed.,Service connection is granted for tinnitus and erectile dysfunction as secondary to a service-connected psychiatric condition. Service connection is denied for the lumbar spine disorder and pes planus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for histoplasmosis and flat feet / fallen arches due to insufficient evidence linking these conditions to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to an inadequate examination for histoplasmosis of the lung, and a new examination is required.
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