The Board has granted service connection for a right eye disability, including a macular scar, cataract, and visual loss. The claim for left eye disability is denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examination report linked the current right eye disability to an in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye cataract, macular scar in the right eye, visual loss in the right eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2010
- Citation
- 1000804
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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
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