The Board finds that the evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's current peripheral neuropathy is etiologically related to his service-connected hypogammaglobulinemia, and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: A private medical opinion from Dr. Kovacs supports a relationship between the Veteran's chronic peripheral neuropathy and his service-connected common variable immune deficiency syndrome (CVID), suggesting that both conditions are closely related based on clinical experience in the fields of neurology and immunology.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 26, 2013
- Citation
- 1327323
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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