The Board denied service connection for inflammatory bowel disease as it is not shown to be related to the Veteran's service-connected herniated surgical scarring with recurrent surgical intervention for adhesions of small bowel and umbilicus.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence did not find a current diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, nor was there any link between the Veteran's service-connected condition and her claimed disability.
- Claimed conditions
- cystitis, inflammatory bowel disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2014
- Citation
- 1400250
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