The veteran's symptoms of abdominal pain, discomfort, and gastrointestinal distress have not been attributed to a diagnosed disability.
The deciding factor: No current disability has been established for the claimed conditions; no medical professional has linked the veteran's symptoms to an in-service event or incident.
- Claimed conditions
- abdominal aneurysm, prominent left gonadal vein
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0902890
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Decisions by this judge: 684 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Denied
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