The Veteran's ischemic heart disease (including CAD) was not shown to have arisen prior to March 24, 2002. The effective date for service connection is therefore denied.
The deciding factor: Ischemic heart disease did not arise prior to March 24, 2002 as evidenced by the June 5, 1989 cardiac catheterization results and subsequent diagnoses of viral myocarditis in both hospitalizations from May-June 1989.
- Claimed conditions
- Ischemic Heart Disease (including acute, subacute, and old myocardial infarction; atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease including coronary artery disease (including coronary spasm) and coronary bypass surgery; stable, unstable and Prinzmetal's angina)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2015
- Citation
- 1509558
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