Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for depression and a total disability rating for individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, effective August 10, 2022.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's depression was found to be secondary to his service-connected heart disability.
- Claimed conditions
- depression, right hand carpel tunnel syndrome status post release (R CTS), atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass graft (heart disability)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25096538
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