The Veteran's initial disability rating for scars, status post liver transplant, is granted at a 20 percent level. The claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection to status post liver transplant, chronic active hepatitis with active nodular cirrhosis, now cryptogenic cirrhosis, is dismissed.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's scars are not painful or unstable and do not cover an area greater than 39 square centimeters. The effective date for the grant of service connection to his hepatitis is not earlier than October 4, 1991 due to lack of a timely appeal within one year.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic active hepatitis, cryptogenic cirrhosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- June 1, 2020
- Citation
- 20037158
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