The Board denied the veteran's request for an increased disability rating for her service-connected angioneurotic edema, currently rated at 40 percent.
The deciding factor: The appeal was not about service connection and thus did not involve any issues related to exposure or presumptive conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- angioneurotic edema
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0032847
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a skin disability other than tinea pedis, finding that there was no persuasive evidence of such a condition during or proximate to his military service. The appeal is dismissed.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied an effective date prior to July 19, 2023 for the grant of service connection for angioneurotic edema.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's motion for revision based on clear and unmistakable error of the August 25, 1971 Rating Decision denying service connection for angioneurotic edema, finding the decision was subsumed by the November 14, 1989 Board decision and therefore not subject to collateral attack. The Board also denied an effective date prior to January 11, 2011 for any award of service connection.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for angioneurotic edema but denied it for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
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