The Board found that the Veteran does not currently have pulmonary hypertension and denied his claim for service connection as secondary to achalasia.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of evidence indicated that the Veteran did not have current pulmonary hypertension, and any potential link to his service-connected achalasia was insufficient to establish service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary hypertension, achalasia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 13, 2009
- Citation
- 0913773
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