The Board has granted service connection for choroideremia and awarded a TDIU based on the Veteran's blindness due to his hereditary eye disability. The decision finds that the Veteran's choroideremia was aggravated by service, and he is now legally blind as a result of this condition.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence was in relative equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's choroideremia was aggravated by service, thus granting service connection. The TDIU was granted based on the Veteran's blindness due to his service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- choroideremia
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19192362
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Decisions by this judge: 2,062 · Granted: 34% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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