The Veteran's POTS is granted with an initial rating of 60 percent, effective from March 18, 2009. Service connection for SVT as secondary to POTS is also granted.
The deciding factor: POTS was rated under the General Rating Formula for Disease of the Heart due to its overlap in anatomical localization and symptomatology with heart conditions, which provided a higher rating than the General Rating Formula for Minor Seizures used for neurological disorders. The Veteran's POTS symptoms were found to be equivalent to major seizures.
- Claimed conditions
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 5, 2022
- Citation
- 22000541
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Decisions by this judge: 1,772 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Granted
The Board has determined that the August 2019 notice of disagreement was timely as to the December 2016 rating decision for POTS. The appeal is granted, but the case is remanded due to a need for an SOC regarding entitlement to an initial disability rating greater than 30 percent for POTS.
- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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