The Board has determined that additional development, including obtaining service treatment records and an examination, is needed to properly adjudicate the Veteran's claim for service connection for a right eye disorder.
The deciding factor: The current medical evidence does not clearly establish whether the Veteran's current right eye disorders are congenital defects or diseases. The examiner must address this question in the context of the definitions provided by VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- Right eye optic nerve pit, Open angle glaucoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2012
- Citation
- 1221633
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected eye disability, including open angle glaucoma and left eye cataract, is rated at a 60 percent rating prior to April 23, 2019. The Board found that the evidence did not support a higher rating.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection were denied. The Board found that the evidence did not support a finding of in-service exposure to herbicides, and thus could not establish presumptive service connection based on Agent Orange exposure. Additionally, there was no direct or secondary service connection established.
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