The Veteran's claims for left and right knee disabilities have been denied multiple times, with the most recent denial being in December 2014. The Veteran's claim for an acquired psychiatric disability to include PTSD has been remanded.,The Veteran's claim for diabetes mellitus type II (DM) has also been remanded.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was not submitted to reopen the claims for left and right knee disabilities, as well as the acquired psychiatric disability. The claims for DM have been remanded due to insufficient medical nexus opinion.,The Veteran's claim for PTSD has been recharacterized to reflect persistent depressive disorder with anxious distress.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Condition, Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) of Right Knee, Acquired Psychiatric Disability to include Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymia) with Anxious Distress (claimed as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)), Diabetes Mellitus Type II (DM)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2023
- Citation
- 23008855
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for bilateral knee conditions, finding that the Veteran's current knee conditions are more likely than not related to his military service.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claims for service connection for pre-existing left and right knee conditions, finding that these conditions were aggravated by military service.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right and left knee conditions, finding that they are related to his active service.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right knee, left knee, right ankle, and left ankle conditions as secondary to his service-connected left hip replacement.
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