The Veteran's eye disability, respiratory conditions, and hypothyroidism are granted service connection. Service connection for lumbar spine, knee, hearing loss, ear disability (claimed as infective otitis externa), leg cramps (to include peripheral neuropathy), hypertension, and anemia is remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's disabilities are related to his in-service radiation exposure during Operation Crossroads.
- Claimed conditions
- hypothyroidism, open-angle glaucoma with borderline finding of age-related macular degeneration, pleural calcifications, pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Ionizing radiation
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19154382
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