The Board found that the causes of the Veteran's death (respiratory failure, hepatorenal syndrome and alcoholic cirrhosis) were not incurred in or aggravated by active service, cannot be presumed to have been incurred therein, and are not related to a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence showing any connection between the causes of death and the Veteran's active service or his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Respiratory failure, Hepatorenal syndrome, Alcoholic cirrhosis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2012
- Citation
- 1223706
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