The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection of a cerebrovascular accident secondary to his service-connected cephalgia as a residual of closed head injury and an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for cephalgia. The Board found no evidence supporting a relationship between the veteran's cerebrovascular accidents and his service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support a finding that the veteran's cerebrovascular accidents were proximately due to or the result of his service-connected closed head injury, resulting in cephalgia. The Board also found no basis for assigning a higher rating under Diagnostic Code 8100 (migraine headaches) as there was no diagnosis of multi-infarct dementia associated with brain trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebrovascular accident, Cephalgia (headache) as a residual of closed head injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0639401
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