Denied
The Board denied service connection for pulmonary fibrosis and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for a psychiatric disability to include as secondary to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion determined that the Veteran's pulmonary fibrosis was due to rheumatoid arthritis and not due to TERA exposures, and there is no evidence linking the psychiatric disability to the service-connected heart or hypertension disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary fibrosis, psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25104981
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