The Board has determined that the appellant's claim of service connection for the cause of her husband's death is well-grounded and grants this claim. The issue of entitlement to DIC benefits under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318 remains pending.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a relationship between the veteran's service-connected heart conditions and his sudden cardiac death, which was found to be the cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- aortic valve disease, rheumatic heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0020809
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- Dismissed
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- Partly granted
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- Dismissed
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