The Veteran's CIDP was not shown to be related to his military service and is not a presumptive disease associated with herbicide exposure. The Board denied the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not have CIDP in service or within one year after service, and there is no evidence of continuity of symptomatology since service. There was no medical opinion linking CIDP to military service or to herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 20, 2012
- Citation
- 1232391
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- Dismissed
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