The Veteran's chronic urinary tract infections, prostatitis, and erectile dysfunction are granted service connection. The kidney infection and kidney scarring claims are denied.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the Veteran's claims for chronic urinary tract infections, prostatitis, and erectile dysfunction as being related to his active service. However, there is no medical evidence of a current diagnosis or functional impairment for kidney infection and kidney scarring.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic urinary tract infections, chronic prostatitis, erectile dysfunction, kidney infection, kidney scarring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19189492
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