The Board found that the veteran's angioneurotic edema had its onset during her ACDUTRA period in September 1992, and granted service connection for this condition. The right knee disorder was rated at 10 percent.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on evidence linking the angioneurotic edema to the veteran's ACDUTRA period in September 1992.
- Claimed conditions
- angioneurotic edema
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 15, 2006
- Citation
- 0604403
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Decisions by this judge: 1,175 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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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 a skin disability other than tinea pedis, finding that there was no persuasive evidence of such a condition during or proximate to his military service. The appeal is dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied an effective date prior to July 19, 2023 for the grant of service connection for angioneurotic edema.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's motion for revision based on clear and unmistakable error of the August 25, 1971 Rating Decision denying service connection for angioneurotic edema, finding the decision was subsumed by the November 14, 1989 Board decision and therefore not subject to collateral attack. The Board also denied an effective date prior to January 11, 2011 for any award of service connection.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for angioneurotic edema but denied it for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
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