The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's residuals of malaria and secondary service connection for his status post liver transplant as a residual of exposure to herbicides. The case was remanded due to incomplete records, but no further development is required now.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established directly without any presumption or secondary theory.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of malaria, status post liver transplant
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0603302
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of malaria as there is no evidence of a current disability and no credible evidence that he was diagnosed with malaria during his active duty.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of malaria, hypertension, and hepatitis C require additional development due to incomplete medical opinions and need for new VA examinations.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for boils, hepatitis C, residuals of malaria, a liver disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as there was no medical evidence of currently diagnosed conditions or credible supporting evidence that the claimed in-service stressors occurred.
- Denied
The Board found that the veteran had not submitted new and material evidence to reopen any of his claims for service connection for PTSD, tinnitus, hearing loss, residuals of malaria, or gastritis.
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