The Veteran's current bilateral eye disorders did not manifest in service and are not otherwise related to his military service. The Board finds that the Veteran's claim for a GSW of the right side with retained foreign bodies, adhesions, and limitation of motion of the right arm is denied as there was no evidence linking these conditions to service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence of any in-service injury, event, or illness related to the Veteran's open angle glaucoma, early age-related macular degeneration, incipient cataracts in both eyes, dry eye syndrome, dissociated phoria, mild blepharitis with clogged meibomian glands, and myopia/astigmatism.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Eye Disorders, GSW of the Right Side with Retained Foreign Bodies, Adhesions, and Limitation of Motion of the Right Arm
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2017
- Citation
- 1745689
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