The Board found that the Veteran's kidney transplant evaluation was properly reduced from 100% to 30%, effective December 1, 2022. The reduction was based on his continued good health and improvement since his second transplant.
The deciding factor: The Veteran had no physical symptoms or functional impact following his bilateral native nephrectomy and the VA examiner found that the transplanted kidney did not have any pathology.
- Claimed conditions
- Polycystic kidney disease, Kidney transplant
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24075391
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 926 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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