Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right and left lower extremity compartment syndrome, and assigned ratings for the Veteran's knee conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the previous denials related to unestablished facts necessary to substantiate the claims and raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating them.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity compartment syndrome, left lower extremity compartment syndrome, recurrent instability of the right knee, symptomatic residuals of right medial meniscectomy, limitation of flexion of the right knee, limitation of extension of the right knee, chronic residuals of right total knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- November 5, 2025
- Citation
- 25013689
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