The Veteran is granted a 30 percent rating for post-operative laparoscopic cholecystectomy (also claimed as gall bladder syndrome) prior to January 18, 2017.
The deciding factor: The symptoms of severe chronic diarrhea following the surgery were consistent and described in both examinations provided by VA.
- Claimed conditions
- post operative laparoscopic cholecystectomy, chronic diarrhea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 24, 2018
- Citation
- 1804491
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for chronic diarrhea, headaches, and neck pain for initial adjudication on the merits by the AOJ.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic diarrhea, resolving all reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection for chronic diarrhea and GERD, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review these matters.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic diarrhea and headaches, but denied service connection for anxiety, depressive condition, GERD, rhinitis, and sinusitis.
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