The Board granted an initial rating of 60 percent for the Veteran's service-connected status post implantable pacemaker with bradycardia and atrial fibrillation prior to April 19, 2021, but dismissed several other claims related to earlier effective dates and ratings.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's heart condition manifested with a workload of greater than 3.0 METs but not greater than 5.0 METs, which supported the grant of a 60 percent rating under the pre-amended criteria for sustained ventricular arrhythmias.
- Claimed conditions
- status post implantable pacemaker with bradycardia and atrial fibrillation, residuals, right leg shrapnel injury, scars, right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25097825
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,820 · Granted: 26% (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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- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to improper docketing under the Veterans Appeals Improvement Modernization Act of 2017 (AMA) review system.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeals on all issues due to his withdrawal of the appeal prior to the promulgation of a decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including the issuance of a statement of the case on her service connection claim and the provision of a VA examination to assess her scars of the right lower extremity.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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