The Board found that the Veteran's service-connected PTSD contributed to his chronic alcoholism, which in turn caused or aggravated his metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis. The Board concluded that giving the benefit of doubt to the appellant, the service-connected PTSD caused or aggravated the Veteran's alcoholism.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established a causal relationship between the Veteran's service-connected PTSD and chronic alcoholism, which contributed to his metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis.
- Claimed conditions
- Myocardial infarction, metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis C virus
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 7, 2010
- Citation
- 1001064
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