The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected conditions did not cause his death from liver failure, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion concluded that the veteran's service-connected heart disorder was neither a principal nor contributory cause of his death from liver failure.
- Claimed conditions
- liver failure, chronic bronchitis with emphysema, residuals, myocardial infarction with hypertensive heart disease, bilateral inguinal hernia, chronic nephritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2005
- Citation
- 0531147
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