The Board has granted service connection for right eye floaters, finding that the Veteran's current diagnosis of right eye floaters is due to his service. The decision resolves all reasonable doubts in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The most probative opinion evidence found by the Board relates the Veteran’s right eye disability to his service, including his reports of floaters since his hospitalization for his left eye in service.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye floaters, pseudophakia vitreous degeneration, nuclear cataract
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 27, 2020
- Citation
- 20036378
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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