The Board found that a cerebrovascular accident and its residuals are not shown to be causally related to an incident or event of the veteran's military service, or caused by a service-connected headache disorder.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner noted that there was no positive information supporting either the diagnosis of migraine or the diagnosis of stroke in the veteran's case.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2004
- Citation
- 0428795
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