The Board granted service connection for acute urethritis due to neisseria gonorrhea, syphilis, a deviated septum, an anxiety disorder (acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD), and a traumatic deviated septum.
The deciding factor: New evidence was received that established the presence of current disabilities related to in-service conditions, warranting readjudication of the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- acute urethritis due to neisseria gonorrhea, syphilis, deviated septum, anxiety disorder (acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD), traumatic deviated septum
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25085693
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,772 · Granted: 37% (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
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted an effective date of May 12, 2022 for the grant of service connection for a deviated septum.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for primary anemia and has remanded the claim for a traumatic deviated septum due to insufficient evidence in the current record.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for chronic sinusitis and deviated septum due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors. The Veteran's current diagnoses of chronic sinusitis are supported by service treatment records, while his deviated septum claim requires further development.
- Granted
The Veteran's deviated septum, allergic rhinitis, GERD with persistent nausea, and migraines are all granted as service-connected.,However, the Board is remanding the issue of entitlement to service connection for a bilateral eye condition.
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