The Board found that the appellant's post-service cerebral hemorrhage is not related to his in-service arteriovenous malformation or other conditions, and denied service connection for residuals of cerebral vascular accident.
The deciding factor: No medical evidence established a relationship between the in-service arteriovenous malformation on the nose and/or unexplained blood in the stools with the post-service intracerebral hemorrhage.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of cerebral vascular accident
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 30, 2000
- Citation
- 0017479
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