The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim and determined that his preexisting left hip disorder was aggravated during service, granting service connection for a left hip disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s preexisting left hip disorder was aggravated beyond natural progression during service.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip slipped capital femoral epiphysis with arthritis, status post total left hip arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19104245
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,987 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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