The Board has granted service connection for left knee degenerative arthritis with patellofemoral syndrome and right knee degenerative arthritis with patellofemoral syndrome. The claim for service connection for mouth ulcers is remanded, as well as the claim for low back strain with degenerative arthritis.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was sufficient evidence to support a finding of nexus between the Veteran's current conditions and his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee degenerative arthritis with patellofemoral syndrome, right knee degenerative arthritis with patellofemoral syndrome, mouth ulcers, low back strain with degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19183612
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Decisions by this judge: 2,316 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a heart disability and mouth ulcers, finding that there was no evidence of these conditions during service or within one year after separation. The Board also found insufficient evidence to link any current conditions to herbicide exposure in Vietnam.
- Dismissed
The appeal for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for a bladder disorder and the appeals for service connection for various conditions were dismissed due to untimely filing of the notice of disagreement (NOD) within one year from the date that the agency of original jurisdiction (AOJ) mailed the notice of the rating decision being appealed.
- Dismissed
The appeals for service connection for sinusitis, rhinitis, and chronic bronchitis have been dismissed.,The appeals for service connection for right knee degenerative arthritis with patellofemoral syndrome (claimed as arthritis in knees), left knee degenerative arthritis with patellofemoral syndrome (claimed as arthritis in knees), and tinnitus have been remanded.
- Denied
The Board found that the evidence is not in favor of service connection for right upper extremity muscle myalgia, left upper extremity muscle myalgia, mouth ulcers, and tinea versicolor as there was no current disability or a causal relationship to an in-service disease or injury.
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