The Veteran's arthritis of the right and left fingers is as likely as not caused or aggravated by active service, resulting in a grant of service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on medical evidence linking the current symptoms to service due to arthritis of the fingers.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the right fingers, arthritis of the left fingers
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 16, 2018
- Citation
- 1809259
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals for service connection and increased rating claims due to a concurrent election under the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA). The issues were docketed in error as the AOJ was still reviewing them.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to new VA treatment records being added to the claims file. The Veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for arthritis of the right wrist and fingers, secondary to a service-connected right elbow disability, is now pending.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the veteran's arthritis of the right arm, hand, and fingers is not service-connected due to lack of evidence linking it to his active duty. The claim for an initial compensable rating for deformity of the first metacarpophalangeal joint of the right hand was also denied.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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