The Board finds that the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death is not well grounded due to a lack of evidence linking in-service exposure or injury to the cause of death.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a link between any in-service injury or disease and the veteran's cause of death, nor does there appear to be evidence connecting the veteran's cause of death to his service connection prior to his death.
- Claimed conditions
- Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, aortic valve replacement due to (or as a consequence of) coronary artery disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2000
- Citation
- 0001106
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