The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a neurological disorder, finding that his vascular dementia and residuals are not attributable to service or service-connected bitemporal headaches.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner determined that the Veteran's vascular dementia and residuals were not caused by or aggravated by his service-connected bitemporal headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- Syncope/seizure disorder, Vascular dementia, Residuals, status post right cerebrovascular accident with encephalomalacia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2012
- Citation
- 1217145
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