The Veteran's left eye retinal scarring and reduced visual fields due to toxoplasmosis are granted with a 10% rating, subject to the laws and regulations governing the award of monetary benefits.
The deciding factor: The disability is rated based on new evidence that reopened service connection for these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye retinal scarring, reduced visual fields due to scarring from toxoplasmosis affecting the right eye
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 26, 2018
- Citation
- 18121615
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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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for residuals of left eye post-retinal detachment, to include left eye retinal scarring, left eye maculopathy, and left eye cataract.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for chorioretinitis of the left eye and left eye retinal scarring, to include as secondary to chorioretinitis due to an incomplete medical opinion in the July 2018 VA examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for chorioretinitis of the left eye and left eye retinal scarring, to include as secondary to chorioretinitis due to a lack of addressing in the Supplemental Statement of the Case.
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