The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for chronic brain syndrome secondary to anoxic encephalopathy.
The deciding factor: No new and significant evidence has been presented since the March 1973 rating decision to support a reopening of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Brain Syndrome
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 22, 2001
- Citation
- 0108529
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- Granted
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- Denied
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- Denied
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