The Board has determined that the Veteran's restrictive lung disease and COPD are not related to his service or service-connected maxillary sinusitis, and thus denied the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence of a significant obstructive component to the Veteran's pulmonary condition and concluded that the restrictive lung disease is less likely than not caused by or aggravated by the service-connected maxillary sinusitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Restrictive lung disease, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), Chronic maxillary sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 5, 2017
- Citation
- 1719893
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