The Veteran's chronic pansinusitis and chronic bronchitis are granted as service-connected. The Veteran is also granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, which is related to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the diagnoses of chronic pansinusitis, chronic bronchitis, and a psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, all related to the Veteran's service.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Pansinusitis, Chronic Bronchitis, Psychiatric Disorder Other Than PTSD
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- May 3, 2010
- Citation
- 1016375
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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.
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