The Veteran's right hip disability, diagnosed as right hip avascular necrosis, status post right total hip arthroplasty and revision, and residual right greater trochanteric bursitis, is attributable to service. Service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: Right hip disability was found to be related to in-service injury and risk factors present during service.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip avascular necrosis, status post right total hip arthroplasty and revision, residual right greater trochanteric bursitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2017
- Citation
- 1748866
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for increased ratings of his right hip disability prior to the Board's decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for a retrospective medical opinion to determine the severity of the Veteran's right hip disorder without considering the ameliorative effects of medication, as per court holdings in Jones v. Shinseki and Ingram v. Collins.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a right hip disability, diagnosed as right hip avascular necrosis and right hip replacement, and a right hip scar, status post right hip replacement, as secondary to the service-connected right hip replacement.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete records and inadequate medical opinions. The right hip condition, avascular necrosis, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and coronary atherosclerosis are all under review.
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