The Board has granted service connection for peripheral arterial disease of the bilateral lower extremities, finding that it is proximately due or aggravated by his service-connected ischemic heart disease. The issue of TDIU was also remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current peripheral arterial disease is at least in equipoise with his service-connected ischemic heart disease and thus secondary to it.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Right Lower Extremity, Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Left Lower Extremity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 27, 2020
- Citation
- 20029393
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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.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for initial compensable and higher evaluations for peripheral arterial disease of both lower extremities, finding that the evidence does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation based on objective testing.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found that another remand is necessary to ensure compliance with previous remand instructions regarding the Veteran's current lower extremity diagnoses.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issues of whether service connection for peripheral arterial disease should be severed from the Veteran's record due to lack of a clear and unmistakable error in initial grant of service connection.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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