The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for chronic hoarseness and remanded the issue of service connection for monoclonal gammopathy.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of a chronic hoarseness disability, and the VA examiner found that the Veteran’s voice was not characterized as pain or a functional impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic hoarseness, monoclonal gammopathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19129220
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus II, a heart stent, chronic kidney disease stage 3, anxiety with stress, and a lumbar spine disability as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by active service.
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