The Board denied an increased evaluation for the veteran's service-connected postoperative residuals of a vagotomy with pyloroplasty and gastroesophageal reflux, as well as his claim for a total compensation rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support granting higher ratings or a total disability rating due to unemployability based on the veteran's service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Alkaline gastritis, Gastroesophageal reflux
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- September 1, 2000
- Citation
- 0023474
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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