Service connection is granted for left knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty. Service connection is remanded for right knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's left knee disability had onset during service and has been recurrent since then, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty, right knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 7, 2022
- Citation
- 22033228
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for further development due to a duty to assist error. The Veteran's claims of service connection for obesity, peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities, and an increased rating for right knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty are being reconsidered.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for obesity, peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities, right knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty, left foot disorder, diabetes mellitus type II, lumbar spine disorder, sleep apnea, and hypertension have been denied. The Board found that there is no evidence to support these claims.
- Partly granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's left knee osteoarthritis status post total knee arthroplasty is proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected right knee degenerative arthritis. The rating for the right knee disability remains at 30 percent prior to October 30, 2012, and a separate 10 percent rating has been granted for instability of the right knee since that date.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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