The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim of service connection for an eye disability, but the Veteran's claim is considered a full grant of the benefit sought with respect to his established service-connected migraine headaches.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was received sufficient to reopen the previously denied claim of service connection for an eye disability. The Veteran's current eye condition has been attributed to genetic retinal cone dystrophy, which does not warrant a presumption of service-connection based on Persian Gulf War exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Eye disability, Cluster headaches
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 21, 2012
- Citation
- 1228606
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for an eye disability and a headache disability as secondary to his service-connected hypertension. The Board found that there is no current diagnosis of these conditions.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for urinary incontinence and frequency, remanded claims for hemorrhoids, supraventricular arrhythmia, hypertension, varicose veins, eye disability, fibroids of the breasts, and bilateral foot disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), alcohol use disorder, and cluster headaches. The claims were remanded for further development of the evidence regarding unspecified mood disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and somatic symptom disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to an initial compensable disability rating for cluster headaches prior to April 5, 2023, to obtain a retrospective medical opinion and outstanding VA treatment records.
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