Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected HIV infection with fibromatoses, and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for an abdominal scar from an appendectomy, also as secondary to the service-connected HIV infection with fibromatoses.
The deciding factor: The Board found that new and relevant evidence had been submitted linking the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss to his service-connected HIV infection, and that there was at least a 50/50 chance that the abdominal scar from an appendectomy was aggravated by the service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Abdominal scar from an appendectomy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25105325
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