The Veteran's additional stomach disability is caused by VA treatment and the proximate cause of the disability was carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment or similar instance of fault on the part of VA.
The deciding factor: The Veteran received standard of care every time he was seen, but ongoing infection due to mesh failure led to complications.
- Claimed conditions
- Additional stomach disability, Osteomyelitis, Chronic wound infections, Open non-healing abdominal wounds
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 5, 2014
- Citation
- 1420000
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