The Board found no new and material evidence to reopen the claim of entitlement to service connection for coronary artery disease as secondary to a service-connected psychosis. The veteran's current coronary artery disease is not proximately due to, the result of or aggravated by his service-connected psychosis. The criteria for an evaluation in excess of 50 percent for psychosis with encephalopathy associated with organic brain syndrome due to trauma have not been met.
The deciding factor: The VA physicians who examined the veteran and reviewed his medical records did not find any competent medical evidence supporting a causal relationship between the service-connected psychosis and the veteran's heart disease. The preponderance of the evidence is against the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for coronary artery disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Coronary artery disease, Psychosis with encephalopathy associated with organic brain syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0115755
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