The Board found that the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death is not well-grounded due to lack of evidence showing a causal link between his death and any service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The veteran died from bacterial bronchopneumonia, bilateral, due to or as a consequence of cachexia due to or as a consequence of a brain abscess caused by cladosporium trichoides. There was no evidence showing that his death was related to any service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bacterial bronchopneumonia, cachexia, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, brain abscess
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2000
- Citation
- 0013653
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