The Board has decided that further evaluation is needed to determine if the Veteran has a recurrent liver disability and its relationship to active service and other service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: Further medical examination is required to diagnose any identified recurrent liver disability and assess its etiology, including whether it is related to active service or due to other service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent liver disability, liver abscess
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2022
- Citation
- 22010618
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has determined that there is no evidence of a liver abscess in the Veteran's medical records, and thus compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for a liver abscess is denied.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various disabilities, including abnormal weight loss, a bladder disability, blockage of the neck arteries, and others. The evidence did not support a finding that any of these conditions were related to the Veteran's active service.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bone cancer, liver abscess, shortness of breath, memory problems, PTSD, diabetes mellitus type II, multiple myeloma, thrombocytopenia, and hypertension. The Veteran was granted service connection for hypertension, multiple myeloma, and thrombocytopenia under the PACT Act effective August 10, 2022.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection for recurrent kidney disability, liver disability, and skin disability are being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination and consideration of all relevant evidence.
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