The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the Veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for aortic valvular disease, which was previously denied in January 2006. The evidence received since then does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
The deciding factor: The new evidence provided by the Veteran does not contain a diagnosis of a disease presumptively related to herbicide exposure or otherwise link the Veteran's aortic valvular disease to service.
- Claimed conditions
- aortic valvular disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 9, 2015
- Citation
- 1515392
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