The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including his blindness and PTSD, are found to have caused or contributed substantially to his death from renal failure due to hypertension.
The deciding factor: Service-connected disabilities, including bilateral blindness with light perception only and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), were found to be the primary cause of the Veteran's death from renal failure due to hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral blindness with light perception only, traumatic chorioretinitis of the left eye, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with history of anxiety reaction, residuals of cold injury of the right foot, residuals of cold injury to the left foot, residuals of an arthrotomy of the right knee, venous stasis ulcer of the right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the right foot, peripheral neuropathy of the left foot, chronic maxillary sinusitis and rhinitis, residuals of an injury to the left trigeminal nerve, scars of the face
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 25, 2011
- Citation
- 1103087
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