The Board granted service connection for right and left eye recurrent infections and dry eye syndrome, but remanded the claims for left eye pinguecula and nuclear sclerosis and right eye nasal pterygium and nuclear sclerosis for further development.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in approximate equipoise that the inflammations of the eyes are related to service, and the bilateral dry eye syndrome was caused or aggravated by the inflammations of the eyes. However, further development is needed regarding the other conditions due to an inadequate medical opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye recurrent infections, right eye dry eye syndrome, left eye recurrent infections, left eye dry eye syndrome, left eye pinguecula and nuclear sclerosis, right eye nasal pterygium and nuclear sclerosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25056692
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Decisions by this judge: 2,341 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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