The Board granted service connection for prostatic hypertrophy but denied service connection for hernia disability, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), bladder incontinence, and renal toxicity.
The deciding factor: The April 2025 VA examiner's positive nexus opinion for the Veteran's prostatic hypertrophy outweighed the negative opinions regarding the other conditions, leading to a mixed disposition.
- Claimed conditions
- hernia disability, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), claimed as varicose veins, prostatic hypertrophy, claimed as prostatic hyperplasia, bladder incontinence, renal toxicity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25013630
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,113 · Granted: 47% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for renal toxicity was dismissed because he withdrew the appeal prior to a decision. The Board also remanded the claim of service connection for colon cancer due to inadequate medical opinions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete evidence, specifically VA treatment records from 'SAMMC'. The Veteran is also required to undergo a secondary service connection opinion regarding his sleep deprivation claim.
- Granted
The Veteran's dysphagia and erectile dysfunction are found to be secondary to his service-connected major depressive disorder with generalized anxiety disorder.,Bladder incontinence is denied as there is no evidence linking it to a service-connected condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error and additional VA medical opinions are needed regarding the Veteran's service connection claims.
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