The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for urinary retention, finding that there is no evidence of a causal relationship between his period of active duty and his current condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the urinary retention was not causally related to the Veteran’s service or any service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Urinary retention
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2021
- Citation
- 21024386
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- Denied
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