The Board has granted service connection for venous stasis as secondary to the veteran's service-connected right ankle disability, finding that there is at least a 50% likelihood that the current condition is related to the prior injury.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the veteran's current venous stasis is more likely than not due to his service-connected right ankle disability.
- Claimed conditions
- venous stasis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 22, 2005
- Citation
- 0508391
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What this means for you
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