The Board denied service connection for left and right knee conditions, finding that the current diagnoses are not related to military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran's bilateral total knee arthroplasty is not at least as likely as not related to an in-service injury or disease, including his deployment.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee arthroplasty, right knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18156527
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