The Board has granted service connection for petit mal epilepsy as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected major depressive disorder and unspecified anxiety disorder.
The deciding factor: The private physician provided evidence supporting a clinical correlation between depression and epilepsy, which was considered in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- petit mal epilepsy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 31, 2024
- Citation
- A24042579
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal was dismissed due to his death during the pendency of the appeal. The Board cannot issue a decision on the underlying claims at this time.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the veteran's claims for a higher disability rating for OSA and idiopathic hypersomnia, service connection for petit mal epilepsy as secondary to TBI, and TDIU. The Board needs more medical evidence to decide these issues.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's pre-existing petit mal epilepsy did not worsen during service, and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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