The Board has remanded the issues of service connection for glaucoma and kidney disease due to inadequate medical opinions provided in May 2020.,Service connection for a sore in the right nostril, skin disorder, and glaucoma have been denied as there is no probative evidence showing these conditions were incurred or related to active service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the VA medical opinions provided in May 2020 did not adequately address the Veteran's presumed herbicide exposure on a direct basis for glaucoma and did not provide sufficient rationale for denying service connection for kidney disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Sore in right nostril, Skin disorder, Glaucoma, Kidney disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 13, 2020
- Citation
- 20053751
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