The VA denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to lack of adjudicated service-connected disabilities and insufficient evidence from the Waco VA Medical Center.
The deciding factor: The claim was denied because there were no adjudicated service-connected disabilities, and the VA could not find any relevant medical records from the Waco VA Medical Center.
- Claimed conditions
- massive pulmonary embolism, left leg phlebothrombosis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2000
- Citation
- 0012017
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- Granted
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