The Board has restored the Veteran's 60 percent evaluation for nephropathy from January 1, 2013 to April 18, 2014 due to insufficient evidence showing sustained improvement in his condition.
The deciding factor: The February 2012 VA examination was based on an inaccurate factual premise and did not consider the Veteran's lay statements regarding his kidney-related symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- nephropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- October 13, 2020
- Citation
- 20066199
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Decisions by this judge: 2,456 · Granted: 23% (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
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for nephropathy as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus type II.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal seeking service connection for nephropathy during a Board hearing.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter of entitlement to service connection for nephropathy, as further medical evaluation is needed to determine if it is secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus and considering the Veteran's presumed exposure to herbicides during his service in Vietnam.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for nephropathy, and remanded several other claims including those for a vitamin deficiency, right inguinal hernia, and sarcoidosis due to insufficient evidence.
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