The Board has granted service connection for a right knee disorder, cervical spine disorder, and lumbar spine disorder. Service connection was denied for a heart disorder.
The deciding factor: Service records do not show any evidence of a heart murmur or valvular heart disease during service, and the veteran does not have such a condition currently.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disorder, Heart Disorder (including hypertension and heart murmur), Cervical Spine Disorder, Lumbar Spine Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- June 21, 2002
- Citation
- 0206722
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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