The Board denied the appellant's claims for an increased disability rating for Guillain-Barre syndrome and service connection for memory loss and an affective disorder, both of which were claimed as secondary to his service-connected Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support a current diagnosis or manifestations of the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 8, 2001
- Citation
- 0126116
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