The Board found that the Veteran's erectile dysfunction is not etiologically related to his service-connected prostate disability and denied both his secondary service connection claim for erectile dysfunction and his SMC claim for loss of use of a creative organ.
The deciding factor: VA medical opinions were provided, including one from March 2003 VA examiner who concluded that the Veteran's erectile dysfunction could be secondary to his benign prostatic hypertrophy. However, other VA examiners in February 2000 and January 2001 found it more likely related to various medical problems, including hypogonadism.
- Claimed conditions
- Erectile Dysfunction (Impotence), Prostate Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2010
- Citation
- 1006348
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