The Board finds that the veteran's current cold agglutinin disease is not related to his military service, and thus denies the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA specialist in hematology and oncology found no etiologically relationship between the veteran's cold exposure and history of pneumonia during service and his current cold agglutinin disease.
- Claimed conditions
- hemolytic anemia, cold agglutinin disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0633174
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