The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for postoperative residuals of left nephrectomy, finding no legal basis to grant such a claim based on his daughter's spina bifida and kidney failure.
The deciding factor: Service connection cannot be granted for the residuals of a donor nephrectomy due to lack of evidence of disease or injury incurred in service. The Veteran's exposure to Agent Orange did not result in his daughter's condition, which is unrelated to service.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of left nephrectomy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1026412
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