The Veteran developed right femoral peripheral neuropathy as a result of the development of a right femoral pseudoaneurysm and infection following a September 2003 cardiac catheterization procedure performed at the VA Medical Center. The Board finds that this event was not reasonably foreseeable, thus meeting the criteria for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
The deciding factor: The permanent nerve injury resulting from the pseudoaneurysm and infection following the September 2003 cardiac catheterization procedure was not a risk or complication that would typically be discussed in an informed consent, making it an event reasonably foreseeable to a reasonable healthcare provider.
- Claimed conditions
- right femoral peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2015
- Citation
- 1505082
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