The Veteran's lung disability, including hypersensitivity pneumonitis and a blood clotting disorder affecting the lungs, is found to be at least as likely as not proximately due to his service-connected hairy cell leukemia.
The deciding factor: Medical literature supports that hypersensitivity pneumonitis can manifest in approximately five percent of cases like the Veteran's case, which aligns with the reports provided by the treating physician and the most recent VA opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- hypersensitivity pneumonitis, blood clotting disorder affecting the lungs
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2023
- Citation
- 23006121
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- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for hypersensitivity pneumonitis and denied increased ratings for diabetes mellitus type II, hypertensive vascular disease, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus, and coronary artery disease. However, the Board granted an increased rating of 40 percent for both left and right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus and granted total disability based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities effective March 15, 2021.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection on the merits were dismissed. The claims of entitlement to service connection for anemia, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and pulmonary pneumonitis and fibrosis have been withdrawn by the Veteran. Appeals for reopening of several other conditions based on new and material evidence are granted.
- Denied
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- Partly granted
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