The Board found that the Veteran's congenital esotropia, which was surgically corrected during service, did not result in a current vision/eye disability and thus denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner determined that any current diplopia/blurring vision is age-related and unrelated to service or service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- vision/eye disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 9, 2014
- Citation
- 1401102
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