The veteran's service-connected organic heart disease, which includes both rheumatic and arteriosclerotic conditions, is rated at 100 percent disabling.
The deciding factor: Service connection for the veteran's arthritis of the back and hands was denied as not proximately due to or the result of his service-connected organic heart disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Organic Heart Disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 5, 2004
- Citation
- 0411673
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Decisions by this judge: 685 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected COPD, bilateral hearing loss, and organic heart disease have been granted. The rating for organic heart disease has been increased to 100 percent effective from September 22, 2020.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's heart condition resulted in left ventricular dysfunction with an ejection fraction of 55 percent, which meets the criteria for a 60 percent rating since March 1, 2010.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD as of March 3, 2005, and has found service connection for organic heart disease secondary to PTSD. The veteran's PTSD is currently manifested by occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to symptoms such as panic attacks, impaired judgment, disturbances of motivation and mood, difficulty in establishing effective work and social relationships, and intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has reopened the claim of entitlement to service connection for essential hypertension and granted service connection for organic heart disease, including hyperlipidemia and essential hypertension.
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