The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim of service connection for right knee post-operative meniscectomy and subsequent total knee arthroplasty, finding that new and material evidence has been submitted. The case is now remanded to determine if the condition was aggravated by service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The examiner will provide an opinion on whether any increase in disability of the Veteran's right knee was clearly and unmistakably due to the natural progress of the disease, and whether it is at least as likely as not that his diagnosed right knee condition is proximately due to, the result of, or aggravated by service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee post-operative meniscectomy, right knee subsequent total knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 30, 2014
- Citation
- 1433944
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