The veteran's service-connected postoperative gastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer is rated at 20 percent, but the Board has determined that a higher rating of 40 percent is warranted based on moderate severity with symptoms such as mild circulatory symptoms after meals, weight loss, and chronic iron deficiency.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the veteran's disability picture more closely approximates the criteria for a 40 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 7308 (moderate postgastrectomy syndrome with less frequent episodes of epigastric disorders with characteristic mild circulatory symptoms after meals but with diarrhea and weight loss).
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative gastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer, iron deficiency anemia, gastric bezoar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 19, 2005
- Citation
- 0501546
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