The Veteran's postoperative duodenal ulcer with GERD and chronic pancreatitis has been manifested by abdominal pain, diarrhea, pyrosis, regurgitation, anemia at times, and weight loss at different times but does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation.
The deciding factor: The symptoms do not warrant a rating in excess of 20 percent as they have not produced considerable impairment of health or met the specific criteria for a higher evaluation under Diagnostic Codes 7305 (duodenal ulcer) and 7346 (hiatal hernia).
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative duodenal ulcer, Chronic pancreatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 22, 2012
- Citation
- 1228810
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