The Board has determined that the Veteran's cause of death was not related to his service-connected disabilities, including diabetes mellitus, tinnitus, post-traumatic stress disorder, shell fragment wound scars, and bilateral hearing loss.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence relating the Veteran's cause of death to his service or to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute renal failure, Blood loss anemia, Non healing abdominal surgical wound, Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 8, 2010
- Citation
- 1025408
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What this means for you
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