The Veteran's vision disability, diagnosed as conjunctivitis, is caused by her service-connected Crohn’s disease.,The Veteran's gynecological disorder, diagnosed as uterine fibroids, was incurred while in service.
The deciding factor: Service connection granted based on secondary to service-connected conditions and established medical evidence of causation.
- Claimed conditions
- vision disability (conjunctivitis), gynecological disability (uterine fibroids), pancreas disability, joint pain disability (other than knees, elbows, and hands), disability manifested by chronic weakness and dizziness, enlarged kidney disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19117781
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Decisions by this judge: 2,170 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
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