The Veteran has additional disabilities, including pain, incision wound drainage, and loss of abdominal musculature, as a result of VA surgery to repair a hernia performed in February 2004. The Board finds that these disabilities are due to fault on the part of VA during this surgery.
The deciding factor: The August 2011 VA specialist's opinion concluded that the Veteran's additional disabilities were attributable to faulty surgery at the VA facility in 2004, which caused complications such as small bowel obstruction and loss of abdominal musculature.
- Claimed conditions
- pain, incision wound drainage, loss of abdominal musculature
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 29, 2011
- Citation
- 1143559
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What this means for you
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