The Board has granted service connection for persistent depressive disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected residuals of fracture of right ring finger.,The Board has remanded the issue of service connection for a right elbow disorder, to include as secondary to the service-connected residuals of fracture of right ring finger.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's persistent depressive disorder is aggravated beyond its natural progression by his service-connected residuals of fracture of right ring finger.,There is no credible medical evidence to support a causal link between the Veteran's fracture of the fourth right finger and the currently diagnosed osteoarthritis of the right elbow.
- Claimed conditions
- Persistent Depressive Disorder, Right Elbow Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2022
- Citation
- 22013135
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