The Board has granted service connection for a gallbladder disorder, but denied service connection for a large intestine disorder.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no current diagnosis or treatment for the large intestine disorder in the Veteran's records and could not corroborate it from his STRs or medical treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- gallbladder disorder, large intestine disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19183769
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Decisions by this judge: 3,217 · Granted: 46% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a prostate disorder, gallbladder disorder, Crohn's disease, and hemorrhoids as these conditions were not shown to be related to the Veteran's active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error, specifically regarding the relationship between the Veteran's gallbladder disorder and his service-connected GERD and hypertension.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim of service connection for a gallbladder disorder, finding that there was no evidence linking his current condition to his active military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient reasoning in the September 2021 VA examination, specifically regarding whether the Appellant's preexisting gallbladder disability was aggravated by his ACDUTRA service. The AOJ must provide an addendum opinion addressing these specific complaints and their relation to the Appellant's service.
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