The Board finds that the Veteran's bilateral leg disability is not due to carelessness, negligence, or lack of proper skill on the part of VA in performing his aorto-bifemoral bypass grafting surgery. The additional disability was likely pre-existing and unrelated to the 1997 VA surgery.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's bilateral leg symptoms were present before and after the 1997 VA surgery, and there is no evidence of an additional disability caused by the surgery.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Leg Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2010
- Citation
- 1043255
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