The Veteran's COPD, diabetes, congestive heart failure, vascular problems, back pain, rib pain, and perforated pancreas are not the result of VA treatment. The Board finds that these disabilities were not caused by or the result of the March 2002 coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
The deciding factor: The April 2008 VA medical opinion concluded that it was less likely as not (less than 50/50 probability) that the Veteran's COPD, diabetes, congestive heart failure, vascular problems, back pain, rib pain, and perforated pancreas were caused by or the result of the March 2002 coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Claimed conditions
- COPD, diabetes, congestive heart failure, vascular problems, back pain, rib pain, perforated pancreas
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2010
- Citation
- 1008594
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