The Veteran's service-connected gunshot wound penetrating the abdomen with liver damage is currently rated at 30 percent, and his scar, gunshot wound to the abdomen with numbness is rated at 10 percent. The Board has determined that these ratings are appropriate.,Service connection for sinus bradycardia with pacemaker insertion (claimed as atrial fibrillation) was not granted because there is no evidence showing it was caused or aggravated by service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's gunshot wound penetrating the abdomen with liver damage does not meet the criteria for a higher rating, as the medical evidence does not show severe impairment from definite partial obstruction shown by x-ray, frequent and prolonged episodes of severe colic distension, nausea or vomiting following severe peritonitis, a ruptured appendix, a perforated ulcer, or an operation with drainage.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound penetrating the abdomen with liver damage, scar, gunshot wound to the abdomen with numbness, sinus bradycardia with pacemaker insertion (claimed as atrial fibrillation), gunshot wound to the upper chest, damage to the externus oblique muscle of the back (muscle group XIX)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 17, 2009
- Citation
- 0926748
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