The Board has reopened the claims for service connection for diabetes mellitus, bilateral foot disability, and right ankle disability. The claim for service connection for a right knee disability remains denied as new evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted since the September 2004 rating decision includes VA outpatient treatment records noting complaints of right knee pain but no diagnosed right knee disability, and a QTC examination report indicating tenderness in the right knee without any diagnosis. The evidence does not show a current right knee disability related to service or secondary to the service-connected left anterior cruciate ligament injury.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, bilateral foot disability, right ankle disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2014
- Citation
- 1407462
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- Granted
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