The Veteran's claim of service connection for residuals of orchitis has been reopened, but the evidence does not support a finding that he currently has such disabilities. The Board also denied his SMC claim as there is no service-connected disability to warrant it.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking current infertility or other disabilities to service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- orchitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2017
- Citation
- 1741240
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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