The Board has granted service connection for a vascular disability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus, finding that the aggravation of the service-connected condition caused or worsened the vascular disability.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions concluded that it was at least as likely as not that the Veteran’s vascular disability was aggravated by his service-connected bilateral pes planus.
- Claimed conditions
- vascular disability
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19196624
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Decisions by this judge: 1,429 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for basal cell carcinoma, a vascular disability, and allergic rhinitis due to issues with the hearing process and the need to obtain private treatment records from 1972.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection and rating increases have been dismissed due to his death.
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