The Board has granted service connection for restrictive lung disease as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tuberculosis.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found that the Veteran's restrictive lung disease is at least as likely as not caused by his tuberculosis, and given the May 2020 VA examiner's findings, the Board determined this relationship.
- Claimed conditions
- Restrictive lung disease, Tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 2, 2022
- Citation
- 22032409
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What this means for you
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- Granted
The Board found that the original grant of service connection for restrictive lung disease was not clearly and unmistakably erroneous, thus granting restoration of service connection.
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