The Board has granted service connection for left lower extremity, left upper extremity, right lower extremity, and right upper extremity neuropathy due to chemotherapy treatment for service-connected Hodgkin's disease and/or diabetes. The Veteran is also granted a rating of 60 percent for myocardial infarction.
The deciding factor: The Board found the evidence demonstrated the Veteran has peripheral neuropathy in all four extremities, which was likely caused by his service-connected Hodgkin's disease and/or diabetes. For the increased rating claim, the Veteran’s workload did not meet the criteria for a 100% rating due to lack of chronic congestive heart failure.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity neuropathy, left upper extremity neuropathy, right lower extremity neuropathy, right upper extremity neuropathy, myocardial infarction
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19164969
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What this means for you
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