The Board has determined that the veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected disability, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence suggesting a causal connection between ALL or any other condition contributing to the veteran's death and his service, including claimed herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, acute lymphocytic leukemia, graft versus host disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 23, 2007
- Citation
- 0722298
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The Board has determined that new and material evidence to reopen the claims of service connection for pilonidal cyst, COPD, collapsed lung status post bronchoscopy, pneumonia, pericarditis (also claimed as heart infection), hypertension, benign prostate hypertrophy, myelodysplastic syndrome, myelogenous leukemia, status post-transplant with immune suppression, graft versus host disease, and diabetes mellitus has not been received. As a result, the claims are denied.
- Denied
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