The veteran's service-connected status post small bowel resection was granted a 30 percent rating for the period of appeal due to symptoms including alternating diarrhea and constipation with more or less constant abdominal distress.
The deciding factor: The veteran's complaints of alternating episodes of diarrhea and constipation, along with related ongoing distress, more closely resemble the criteria for a 30 percent rating under Code 7319.
- Claimed conditions
- status post small bowel resection
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0902389
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