The Board has granted service connection for residuals of a right knee total knee replacement and a left knee disability, including a meniscal tear and arthritis, as secondary to the service-connected shell fragment wounds to the Veteran's knees.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the current right and left knee disabilities are secondary to the service-connected residuals of shell fragment wounds to the right and left knees based on medical opinions provided by both VA and private providers.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee post-traumatic arthritis, left knee post-traumatic arthritis, meniscal tear in left knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- August 13, 2024
- Citation
- A24046007
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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 appeal for service connection for various conditions was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection of left and right knee post-traumatic arthritis to obtain a more thorough medical examination.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 10 percent for the Veteran's right knee post-traumatic arthritis disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's left knee disability, including post-traumatic arthritis and chondromalacia with limitation of flexion, is rated at 10 percent. A separate 20 percent rating for left knee lateral instability has been granted. The claims for service connection for right hip and left hip disabilities, as well as TDIU, are being remanded.
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