The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection of optic neuritis as secondary to his service-connected neuro sarcoidosis.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion established a causal relationship between the Veteran's service-connected neuro sarcoidosis and his claimed optic neuritis condition.
- Claimed conditions
- optic neuritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 20, 2023
- Citation
- A23036813
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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