The Board has reopened the appellant's claim and found new evidence that ECT treatment may have contributed to the veteran's death, but does not establish service connection for the cause of his death.
The deciding factor: New medical treatise evidence suggests a possible causal relationship between ECT treatment and heart complications, which could contribute to the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute heart failure
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0001208
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and therefore denied the claim for service connection for the cause of his death.
- Granted
The Board found that the cause of death, acute heart failure, was not related to service-connected conditions and denied reopening the claim for service connection.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's death was not caused by a disease or injury incurred in service, nor did any such disease or injury contribute substantially to her death. The cause of death was acute heart failure secondary to infective endocarditis.
- Denied
The Board found that new and material evidence had been received to reopen the appellant's claim, but denied entitlement to service connection for the cause of the veteran's death upon de novo review. The Board concluded that there was no competent medical evidence linking the veteran's fatal heart failure or schizophrenia to his military service.
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