The Board found that the veteran's death was not caused by his service-connected conditions, and thus denied service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: Service connection could only be granted if a condition was incurred or aggravated during active duty. The Board determined that none of the veteran's service-connected conditions contributed to his death.
- Claimed conditions
- multi-organ failure, sepsis, community acquired pneumonia, a cerebrovascular accident, thrombosis, left middle cerebral aneurysm, hypertensive arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, left atrial enlargement, left ventricular hypertrophy, pulmonary tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 27, 2003
- Citation
- 0305799
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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