The Board of Veterans' Appeals has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for memory impairment secondary to service-connected spinal meningitis, finding that there is no evidence linking the current disability to his military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a link between the veteran's service-connected spinal meningitis and his current memory impairment. The private physician stated that the memory impairment was caused by an accident after separation from military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Memory impairment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0306432
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Decisions by this judge: 464 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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